Letter-to-sound rules for Korean

Author

Brew, C. ; Beckman, Moritz

fYear

2002

fDate

11-13 Sept. 2002

Firstpage

47

Lastpage

50

Abstract

We describe a Korean letter-to-sound (LTS) subsystem built within the Festival TTS framework. The subsystem has two major components. In the first step Korean orthography is deterministically mapped, without consideration of context, to a phonemic representation close to the ISO TR 11941:1996 transcription scheme. The second step is an implementation of the most important morphophonemic rules of Korean. This second component is somewhat more complex, and needs to respond to context, syllable structure, morphology and (ideally, but not implemented here) etymology. We outline the design principles of the TTS system of which this LTS module will be a part and describe the evaluation of the LTS rules against a large corpus.

Keywords

linguistics; speech processing; speech synthesis; Festival TTS framework; ISO TR 11941:1996 transcription scheme; Korean LTS subsystem; Korean orthography; context; deterministic mapping; letter-to-sound rules; morphology; morphophonemic rules; phonemic representation; syllable structure; Databases; Loudspeakers; Morphology; Natural languages; Production systems; Speech synthesis; Standards development; Synthesizers; System testing; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Speech Synthesis, 2002. Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7395-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSS.2002.1224370

Filename

1224370