| Title |
Regional Pronunciation Variants for Automatic Segmentation |
| Authors |
Beringer Nicole (Institut fuer Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation, Schellingstr. 3, D-80799 Muenchen, Germany, beringer@phonetik.uni-muenchen.de)
Neff Marcia (Institut fuer Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation, Schellingstr. 3, D-80799 Muenchen, Germany, maneff@phonetik.uni-muenchen.de) |
| Keywords |
ASR, German Dialectal Regions, MAUS, Regional Pronunciation Rules, Variants |
| Session |
Session SP1 - Phonetic Issues and Speech Synthesis |
| Full Paper |
307.ps, 307.pdf |
| Abstract |
The goal of this paper is to create an extended rule corpus with approximately 2300 phonetic rules which model segmental variation of regional variants of German. The phonetic rules express at a broad-phonetic level phenomena of phonetic reduction in German that occurs within words and across word boundaries. In order to get an improvement in automatic segmentation of regional speech variants, these rules are clustered and implemented depending on regional specification in the Munich Automatic Segmentation System. |
