100K+ words, machine-readable, pronunciation dictionary for the Romanian language

This paper intends to present a newly developed Romanian language pronunciation dictionary called NaviRo. The dictionary contains more than 100k words from the DexOnline dictionary together with their phonetic transcriptions in Speech Assessment Method Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA), a machine readable alphabet. The development of the pronunciation dictionary and the system architecture are also described in the paper. NaviRo pronunciation dictionary is freely available on the project website in HTK (Hidden Markov Model Toolkit) and Festival Speech Synthesis System dictionary format. There are also available for download the used grapheme and phoneme set and the audio samples for the used phonemes. The use of these resources is completely unrestricted for any research purposes in order to promote Romanian language speech technology research.