Patent ID: 6347295
Filing Date: 2002-02-12
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
In a computer system, a method for generating grapheme-to-phoneme rules, comprising the steps of:receiving dictionary input formed of a plurality of character string entries, each character string entry (i) being formed of a sequence of one or more characters and (ii) having a corresponding phoneme indication formed of phonemic data parts, a different phonemic data part for different respective subsequence of characters in the character string entry; for each of the different subsequences of characters in the character string entries, (a) determining respective corresponding phonemic data parts found throughout the dictionary input for the subsequence of characters, and (b) from the determined respective corresponding phonemic data parts for the subsequence of characters, forming a grapheme-to-phoneme rule for indicating transformation from the subsequence of characters to at least one of the respective corresponding phonemic data parts, such that grapheme-to-phoneme rules are generated from the dictionary input.