Author:Loots, L; Davel, M; Barnard, E; Niesler, TDate:Nov 2009Phoneme-to-phoneme (P2P) learning provides a mechanism for predicting the pronunciation of a word based on its pronunciation in a different accent, dialect or language. The authors evaluate the effectiveness of manually-developed as well as ...Read more
Author:Loots, L; De Wet, Febe; Niesler, TDate:Nov 2010In this study we explore the extension of a small Afrikaans pronunciation dictionary by applying phoneme-tophoneme (P2P) and grapheme-and-phoneme-to-phoneme (GP2P)
conversion to an existing and more extensive Dutch pronunciation dictionary. ...Read more
Author:Kgampe, M; Davel, MHDate:Nov 2011Personal names are often pronounced in very different ways depending on the language background of the speaker. We seek to determine whether some of these pronunciations ‘errors’ are systematic and if so, in which ways. Specifically, we analyze ...Read more
