Lexicon Design for Transcription of Spontaneous Voice Messages

Building a comprehensive pronunciation lexicon is a crucial element in the success of any speech recognition engine. The first stage of lexicon design involves the compilation of a comprehensive word list that keeps the Out-Of-Vocabulary (OOV) word rate to a minimum. The second stage involves providing optimized phonemic representations for all lexical items on the list. The research presented here focuses on the first stage of lexicon design

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Michal Gishri, Vered Silber-Varod, Ami Moyal
• Keywords: Comprehensive Pronunciation Lexicon, Education, Lexicon Design, LREC 2010, Pronunciation Lexicon