Impact of Phonetics in Natural Language Processing: A Literature Survey
M. Hanumanthappa, S Rashmi, N M Jyothi · 2014
Phonetic analysis is a branch of natural language processing (NLP) which deals with how the sounds are produced when we talk and how words are related to sounds. Applying phonetic analysis to natural language is a challenging task as it involves making computer to understand how sounds are produced and analyze it. Phonetic analysis has its history starting centuries back however over the past few decades the researchers has addressed this problem in a broader perspective concentrating on different languages that are spoken across the world. The biggest provocation for the phonology is to recognize the language, process it for lexical, syntactic, semantic knowledge about the language and the challenges of speech recognition and speech synthesis. In this paper, we present the meaning of phonetics, phonology, its real implementation by investing the features of some of the techniques employed by various researchers.