English Pronunciation Reasoning by NN Considering Frequency Distribution of Phonemes
Ikuo Yoshihara, Yusuke Higashi, Hanxi Zhu, Kunihito Yamanori, Moritoshi Yasunaga · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2004
Abstract English pronunciation is decided by not only alphabet but also the position in a word. Because to guess pronunciation of an unknown word is difficult, to develop a system is of great significance. Many methods have been proposed for English pronunciation reasoning (EPR). They have been reasoned only from spelling the words. We aim at improving reasoning accuracy by adding frequency of appearance of phonemes to spelling. The accuracy of EPR comes up from 85.43% to 86.39%