ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1999
ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1999

Pronouncing unknown words using multi-dimensional analogies

Francois Yvon

In this paper, a model of analogy-based learning is pre-sented, whose main novelty is the crucial ability to pro-duce analogies in multi-dimensional input and output spaces. Evaluations are performed on various word pro-nunciation tasks, revealing the effectiveness of such joint learning strategies.