European Conference on Speech Technology Edinburgh, Scotland, UK September 1987

The Linguistic Processor in a Multi-Lingual Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text Conversion System

Louis Boves (1), M. Refice (2)

(1) Institute of Phonetics, Nijmegen University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
(2) CSATA, Bari, Italy

This paper summarizes the work being undertaken in ESPRIT project #860, 'Linguistic Analysis of European Languages'. The major objectives of this project are to provide statistics on the frequency of use of words, n-graphs, n-phones, and ambiguities (both in spelling and in pronunciation) as well as to develop a language model that can help in resolving ambiguities and that can perform a number of additional tasks in office automation and in speech technology. The language model will be developed and all attendant information will be provided in a unified way for a large number of European languages. In this presentation attention will be focussed on the language model.

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Bibliographic reference.  Boves, Louis / Refice, M. (1987): "The linguistic processor in a multi-lingual text-to-speech and speech-to-text conversion system", In ECST-1987, 1385-1388.