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From Portuguese to Mirandese: Fast Porting of a Letter-to-Sound Module Using FSTs

Tipología
Proceedings
Título del volumen

Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volume editors

Mamede, Nuno J.; Baptista, Jorge; Trancoso, Isabel; Nunes, Maria das Graças Volpe

Location
Berlin-Heidelberg
Editor
Springer-Verlag
Year
2003
Páginas
49-56
ISBN
3-540-40436-8
Synopsis

[Resumen extraído de la fuente original]

This paper describes our efforts in porting our letter-to-sound module from European Portuguese to Mirandese, the second official language in Portugal. We describe the rule formalism and the composition of the various transducers involved in the letter-to-sound conversion. We propose a set of extra SAMPA symbols to be used in the phonetic transcription of Mirandese, and we briefly cover the set of rules and results obtained for the two languages. Although at a very preliminary stage, we also describe our efforts at building a waveform generation module also based on finite state transducers. The use of finite state transducers allowed a very flexible and modular framework for deriving and testing new rule sets. Our experience led us to believe that letter-to-sound modules could be helpful tools for researchers involved in the establishment of orthographic conventions for lesser spoken languages.

Notas

6th International Workshop, PROPOR 2003 Faro, Portugal, June 26-27, 2003 Proceedings

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