An Icelandic Pronunciation Dictionary for TTS

Anna Björk Nikulásdóttir; Jón Guðnason; Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson

doi:10.1109/SLT.2018.8639590

An Icelandic Pronunciation Dictionary for TTS

Anna Björk Nikulásdóttir
, Jón Guðnason
, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson

Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies

University of Iceland

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Abstract

This paper describes an Icelandic pronunciation dictionary for speech applications and its processing for use in a text-to-speech system for Icelandic. Cleaning and correction procedures were implemented to create a consistent training set for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion modeling, needed for the automatic extension of the dictionary. Experiments with the original version of the dictionary and the cleaned version described in this paper as training sets for a joint sequence g2p algorithm show a clear benefit of using clean data for training, both in terms of PER and in terms of categories of errors made by the g2p algorithm. The results of the dictionary processing where also used to create an initial version of an open source database for Icelandic speech applications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2018 - Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	339-345
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538643341
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SLT.2018.8639590
Publication status	Published - 11 Feb 2019
Event	2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2018 - Athens, Greece Duration: 18 Dec 2018 → 21 Dec 2018

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Name	2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2018 - Proceedings

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Conference	2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2018
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Athens
Period	18/12/18 → 21/12/18

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Icelandic
Pronunciation dictionary
TTS
g2p

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Nikulásdóttir, A. B., Guðnason, J., & Rögnvaldsson, E. (2019). An Icelandic Pronunciation Dictionary for TTS. In 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2018 - Proceedings (pp. 339-345). Article 8639590 (2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2018 - Proceedings). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/SLT.2018.8639590

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Nikulásdóttir, AB, Guðnason, J & Rögnvaldsson, E 2019, An Icelandic Pronunciation Dictionary for TTS. in 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2018 - Proceedings., 8639590, 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2018 - Proceedings, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 339-345, 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2018, Athens, Greece, 18/12/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/SLT.2018.8639590

An Icelandic Pronunciation Dictionary for TTS. / Nikulásdóttir, Anna Björk; Guðnason, Jón; Rögnvaldsson, Eiríkur.
2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2018 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. p. 339-345 8639590 (2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2018 - Proceedings).

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