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Lwazi isiNdebele Pronunciation Dictionary
General phonemic pronunciations for frequently occurring words in SA languages. Dictionaries were developed to be practically usable for speech technology systems, rather than phonetically accurate. Audio samples of all phonemes included. A letter-to-sound rule set for predicting the pronunciations of generic words included. (Separate entry describes rule sets.)
Karen Calteaux
KCalteaux@csir.co.za
Meraka Institute, CSIR
Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/za/legalcode
isiNdebele
Marelie Davel
M Davel and O Martirosian, "Pronunciation dictionary development in resource-scarce environments", In Proc. Interspeech, Brighton, UK, September 2009, pp 2851-2854.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12185/458
235-948-469-991-0
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Pronunciation dictionaries
1.6Mb zipped; 2.6Mb unzipped
1.2
Approximately 5,000 words
Lwazi
Studio recordings; Web
Frequently occurring words (top 5,000 from available word lists). No proper names or foreign words included.
Resource Catalogue
Resource Index
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2018-02-05T20:22:51Z; 2018-03-05T17:55:34Z
2018-02-05T20:22:51Z; 2018-03-05T17:55:34Z
2013-04-01


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