Meanings
- uncountablecomputingThe task of converting graphemes into phonemes.
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Automatic grapheme-to-phoneme conversion was first considered in the context of text-to-speech (TTS) applications. After normalization (expanding abbreviation, numerals, etc.) the input text needs to be converted to a sequence of phonemes which is then used to control a speech synthesizer. The simplest technique is dictionary look-up.
2008 January 20, Maximilian Bisani and Hermann Ney, “Joint-sequence models for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion”, in Speech Communication, volume 50, number 5, United States, →DOI, pages 434-451Synonyms: G2P
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe task of converting graphemes into phonemes.
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