Most pronunciation lexica for speech synthesis in English take no account of morphology. Here we demonstrate the benefits of including a morphological breakdown in the transcription. These include maintaining consistency, developing the symbol set and providing the environmental description for allophones and phonetic variables. Our approach does not use a full morphological generator, but includes morphological boundaries in the lexicon.
Cite as: Fitt, S. (2001) Morphological approaches for an English pronunciation lexicon. Proc. 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2001), 1069-1072, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.2001-230
@inproceedings{fitt01_eurospeech,
author={Susan Fitt},
title={{Morphological approaches for an English pronunciation lexicon}},
year=2001,
booktitle={Proc. 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2001)},
pages={1069--1072},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.2001-230}
}