Patent ID: 7107215

Claim:
A method for determining a compact model to transcribe a language acoustically based on well-defined basic phonetics, said method comprising: extracting phonetic information regarding said language; defining, based on said extracted information, phonological and phonetic units associated with said language; identifying variations in said language; developing a maximal set based on said defined phonological units, phonetic units, and identified variations in said language, and reducing said maximal set to a minimal set of phonemes and allophones wherein said reducing said maximal set further comprises reducing a text-to-speech phonetics set, wherein said text-to-speech phonetics set is reduced by using allophones and adding symbols representing the phoneme to be geminated, and which further comprises removing one of said phonological units, phonetic units and identified variations in said language, thereby providing for a compact model for acoustically transcribing said language.