Improving Pronunciation Accuracy of Proper Names with Language Origin Classes
Ariadna Font Llitjós · 2001
I would like to thank my advisor Alan Black for all his support and dedication, without him this thesis would not have been possible; Kenji Sagae for the insightful discussions about this thesis and, most importantly, for his patience and support; Guy Lebanon and Christian Monson, LTI colleagues, for the discussion about unsupervised clustering; and Toni Badia for having introduced me to the field of Natural Language Processing and for his support during all these years. This work was supported by a “La Caixa ” Fellowship. ii Table of Contents Abbreviations...................................................................................................................... v Abstract.............................................................................................................................. vi