Patent ID: 8438005

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, in a system comprising one or more computers, an Indic sequence of one or more Indic character combinations, each Indic character combination including an Indic character; obtaining, in the system, an orthographic representation of the Indic sequence in a Latinate script, the orthographic representation including one or more orthographic character combinations that each correspond to one of the one or more Indic character combinations, each orthographic character combination including a character in the Latinate script that corresponds to an Indic character included in the corresponding Indic character combination, wherein the orthographic character combinations include orthographic character combinations that have a consonant-vowel sequence and orthographic character combinations that do not have a consonant-vowel sequence, a consonant-vowel sequence being a sequence of characters in the Latinate script in which a consonant character is followed by a vowel character; generating, by the system, a phonetic representation of the Indic sequence, the phonetic representation including one or more phonetic character combinations of phonetic symbols, each phonetic character combination corresponding to an Indic character combination in the Indic sequence, wherein the one or more phonetic character combinations include phonetic character combinations that have corresponding phonetic consonant letters followed by a schwa; comparing, by the system, the phonetic representation of the Indic sequence with the orthographic representation of the Indic sequence; determining, by the system, that a first orthographic character combination does not include a consonant-vowel sequence, and that a first phonetic character combination corresponding to the first orthographic character combination includes a first phonetic consonant letter followed by a first schwa; and generating, by the system, a modified phonetic representation in which the first schwa after the first phonetic consonant letter is removed from the first phonetic character combination.