Automatic Transcription of Lithuanian Text Using Dictionary

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Skripkauskas, Mantas | Telksnys, Laimutis

Affiliations: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Akademijos 4, 08663 Vilnius, Lithuania, e-mail: mantas.skripkauskas@ktk.lt, telksnys@ktl.mii.lt

Abstract: There is presented a technique of transcribing Lithuanian text into phonemes for speech recognition. Text-phoneme transformation has been made by formal rules and the dictionary. Formal rules were designed to set the relationship between segments of the text and units of formalized speech sounds – phonemes, dictionary – to correct transcription and specify stress mark and position. Proposed the automatic transcription technique was tested by comparing its results with manually obtained ones. The experiment has shown that less than 6% of transcribed words have not matched.

Keywords: speech recognition, grapheme to phoneme transcription

Journal: Informatica, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 587-600, 2006