Rational Transductions for Phonetic Conversion and Phonology
Éric Laporte · The MIT Press eBooks · 1997
Phonetic conversion, and other conversion problems related to phonetics, can be performed by finite-state tools. We present a finite-state conversion system, BiPho, based on transducers and bimachines, two mathematical notions borrowed from the theory of rational transductions. The linguistic data used by this system are described in a readable format and actual computation is efficient. With adequate data, BiPho constitutes the first comprehensive spelling-to-phonetics conversion system for French to take the form of transducers or bimachines.