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| Title | Object-oriented Access to the Estonian Phonetic Database |
| Authors | Meister Einar (Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn Technical University, Akadeemia tee 21, Tallinn 12618, Estonia, Einar.Meister@ioc.ee) Eek Arvo (Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn Technical University, Akadeemia tee 21, Tallinn 12618, Estonia, Einar.Meister@ioc.ee) Altosaar Toomas (Acoustics Lab., Helsinki University of Technology, Otakaari 5A, SF-02150 Espoo, Finland, Toomas.Altosaar@hut.fi) Vainio Martti (Department of Phonetics, University of Helsinki, P.O.Box 35, FIN-0014 Helsinki, Finland, Martti.Vainio@helsinki.fi) |
| Keywords | Database Access, Object-Oriented Approach, Phonetic Database, Phonetic Knowledge, Speech Processing |
| Session | Session SP1 - Phonetic Issues and Speech Synthesis |
| Full Paper | 128.ps, 128.pdf |
| Abstract | The paper introduces the Estonian Phonetic Database developed at the Laboratory of Phonetics and Speech Technology of the Institute of Cybernetics at the Tallinn Technical University, and its integration into QuickSig – an object-oriented speech processing environment developed at the Acoustics Laboratory of the Helsinki University of Technology. Methods of database access are discussed, relations between different speech units – sentences, words, phonemes – are defined, examples of predicate functions are given to perform searches for different contexts, and the advantage of an object-oriented paradigm is demonstrated. The introduced approach has been proven to be a flexible research environment allowing studies to be performed in a more efficient way. |