Essays about: "grapheme"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the word grapheme.

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. A qualitative study into EFL teachers’ experiences with dyslexic students in upper secondary schools in Sweden

   University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

   Author : Geite Ellen; [2019]
   Keywords : EFL; Sweden; Dyslexia; Teaching strategies; Upper secondary school; Swedish; English;

   Abstract : This paper examines the awareness and experiences of L2 teachers of English in Swedish upper secondary schools with regard to dyslexic learners, with a focus on teaching strategies and feedback. The data for the study was collected through audio-recorded semi-structured interviews with three teachers of English. READ MORE