Several characteristics of the Thai writing system make Thai graphemeto- phoneme (G2P) conversion very challenging. In this paper, we propose an Example-Based Grapheme-to-Phoneme conversion approach. It generates the pronunciation of a word by selecting, modifying and combining pronunciations from syllables from training corpus. The best system achieves 80.99% word accuracy and 94.19% phone accuracy which significantly outperform previous approaches for Thai.
Cite as: Charoenpornsawat, P., Schultz, T. (2006) Example-based grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for Thai. Proc. Interspeech 2006, paper 1782-Tue3A3O.6, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2006-260
@inproceedings{charoenpornsawat06_interspeech,
author={Paisarn Charoenpornsawat and Tanja Schultz},
title={{Example-based grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for Thai}},
year=2006,
booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2006},
pages={paper 1782-Tue3A3O.6},
doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2006-260}
}