ISCA Archive ECST 1987
ISCA Archive ECST 1987

A lexicon-based grapheme-to-phoneme conversion system

J. M. G. Lammens

There are two ways to do grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for a text-to-speech system: through rules or through lexicons and lookup strategies. Both methods have their pros and cons. For Dutch text-to-speech conversion, only rule systems have been developed so far. In this paper a new lexicon-based system is described. The different modules of the system and the algorithm used are discussed along with some preliminary results.