Essays about: "Grapheme-to-Phoneme"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word Grapheme-to-Phoneme.

1. 1. Text Normalization for Text-to-Speech

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Zhaorui Zhang; [2023]
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   Abstract : Text normalization plays a crucial role in text-to-speech systems by ensuring that the input text is in an appropriate format and consists of standardized words prior to grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for text-to-speech. The aim of this study was to assess the performance of five text normalization systems based on different methods. READ MORE

3. 2. Disambiguating Italian homographic heterophones with SoundChoice and testing ChatGPT as a data-generating tool

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Matilde Nanni; [2023]
   Keywords : ChatGPT; Homograph disambiguation; Italian; SoundChoice;

   Abstract : Text-To-Speech systems are challenged by the presence of homographs, words that have more than one possible pronunciation. Rule-based approaches are often still the preferred solution to this issue in the industry. READ MORE

4. 3. Towards a Language Model for Stenography : A Proof of Concept

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Naomi Johanna Langstraat; [2022]
   Keywords : stenography; language model; GPT-2; GPT; grapheme-to-phoneme; G2P; low-resource; perplexity; compression;

   Abstract : The availability of the stenographic manuscripts of Astrid Lindgren have sparked an interest in the creation of a language model for stenography. By its very nature stenography is low-resource and the unavailability of data requires a tool for using normal data. READ MORE

5. 4. Grapheme-to-phoneme transcription of English words in Icelandic text

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Bjarki Ármannsson; [2021]
   Keywords : Foreign word grapheme-to-phoneme transcription; TTS; text-to-speech; Icelandic; Icelandic phonology; g2p; foreign word g2p;

   Abstract : Foreign words, such as names, locations or sometimes entire phrases, are a problem for any system that is meant to convert graphemes to phonemes (g2p; i.e.converting written text into phonetic transcription). READ MORE

6. 5. Improving an Italian TTS System : Voice Based Rules for Word Boundaries' Phenomena

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Laura Rossetti; [2017]
   Keywords : Natural language processing; Text-to-speech; NLP; TTS; unit selection; rules; Italian; computational linguistics; speech technology;

   Abstract : This thesis project aimed at improving a commercial Italian Unit Selection system by obtaining a higher agreement between the internal target representation produced by the text analysis component and the recordings in the speech database. Precisely this has been done by implementing new transformation rules that are applied on the input text during the text normalization and just after the grapheme-to-phoneme (g2p) module. READ MORE