ISCA Archive Interspeech 2012
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2012

A rule based pronunciation generator and regional accent databank for Portuguese

Simone Ashby, Sílvia Barbosa, Silvia Brandão, José Pedro Ferreira, Maarten Janssen, Catarina Silva, Mário Eduardo Viaro

In this paper, we describe the work of the LUPo (Portuguese Unisyn Lexicon) project to model standard and non-standard varieties of spoken Portuguese from around the globe, and: (1) deliver a free, open-source tool for the automatic generation of accent-specific pronunciation lexica within the existing online lexical knowledge base, the Portal da Lingua Portuguesa; and (2) provide the research and speech technology communities with a free, online, searchable database, the Portuguese RADbank, dedicated to the description of regional varieties of spoken Portuguese.