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An extensive rule set for grapheme-to-allophone conversion of Slovene texts has been defined and evaluated. Another rule set has been developed for pronunciation of names. The efficiency of both S5 rule sets was compared to the one of the Onomastica rule set on two manually transcribed test data sets.
A performance test applied on the S5 pronunciation dictionary showed error rates of about 30% in the stress assignment and consequently in the phonetic transcription. In case stress assignment and the transcriptions of graphemic /e/ and /o/ in stressed syllables had been marked in advance a transcription success rate of nearly 100% was achieved both on names and on standard words with the S5 names rule sets and the S5 standard words rule set, respectively.
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Gros, J., Mihelić, F., Pavešić, N. (1999). Rules for Automatic Grapheme-to-Allophone Transcription in Slovene. In: Matousek, V., Mautner, P., Ocelíková, J., Sojka, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1692. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48239-3_44
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