Speaker-specific Pronunciation for Speech Synthesis Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A pronunciation lexicon for speech synthesis is a key component of a modern speech synthesizer, containing the orthography and phonemic transcriptions of a large number of words. A lexicon may contain words with multiple pronunciations, such as reduced and full versions of (function) words, homographs, or other types of words with multiple acceptable pronunciations such as foreign words or names. Pronunciation variants should therefore be taken ...