| . Gustafson, Joakim. A Swedish Name Pronunciation System. Licentiate Thesis - Speech, Music and Hearing, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, June 1996 |
....from several countries. Completely different spelling and pronunciation rules and conventions in different languages make multi ethnic algorithms more difficult to implement, thus they go beyond the scope of this thesis. The distinction in origins of names is however difficult to make; in [Gustafson 1996], the database employed is subdivided according to the 16 origin of the names, but even here the Swedish names contain names originating in for example Belgium and Germany due to immigration from these countries throughout the past millennium. Also more recent immigration leads to a certain ....
....20 percent of the population are immigrants or have at least one foreign parent. What is a Name Name equivalence can be discussed in many different ways. First of all, one needs to separate the various types of names that can be observed and second of all one needs to define name equivalence. [Gustafson 1996] describes some of the partitions between name types; a name can refer to a person (first name, middle name, surname, nickname etc. a geographical site (place names and street names) and various non human object names (animal names, company names etc. In this thesis, the work has been ....
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. Gustafson, Joakim. A Swedish Name Pronunciation System. Licentiate Thesis - Speech, Music and Hearing, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, June 1996
....that could influence their ratings. For instance, each expert was asked to distinguish between prosodic and phonetic quality during the entire transcription process. Furthermore, the expert modified the standard phonetic transcription provided for each item by a text to phoneme processor [4] to reflect the phonetic deviation. Each phonetic deviation was rated on a scale of 1 to 5 (from horrible to not really deviant ) More information on the transcription process is given in [6] For the time being, only one expert has transcribed enough material to be considered in this study. ....
Gustafson J. A swedish Name Pronunciation System, Licenciate thesis, TMH, KTH, 1996.
....sentence) using a 1 to 5 scale ( unintelligible to sounds like Swedish ) ffl Identifying and rating each prosodic deviation. Phonetic deviations were identified by modifying phonetic symbols in a standard phonetic transcription which was provided for each item using a textto phoneme processor [3]. Each reference has been manually checked and corrected before the transcription process. Each phonetic deviation was rated using a 1 to 5 scale ( horrible to not really deviant ) ffl Rating globally each session on a 1 to 5 scale. A session is the pronunciation of either the list of words or ....
J. Gustafson. A Swedish Name Pronunciation System. Licenciate thesis, TMH, KTH, 1996.
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