Lwazi isiXhosa Pronunciation Dictionary
Title | Lwazi isiXhosa Pronunciation Dictionary |
Description | 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.) |
Contact name | Karen Calteaux |
Contact email | KCalteaux@csir.co.za |
Publisher(s) | Meraka Institute, CSIR |
License | Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/za/legalcode |
Language(s) | isiXhosa |
Author(s) | Marelie Davel |
Citation | M Davel and O Martirosian, "Pronunciation dictionary development in resource-scarce environments", In Proc. Interspeech, Brighton, UK, September 2009, pp 2851-2854. |
URI | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12185/461 |
ISLRN | 166-651-381-757-8 |
Media type | Speech |
Type | Data |
Media category | Pronunciation dictionaries |
Format extent | 1.6Mb zipped; 2.7Mb unzipped |
Version | 1.2 |
Format size | Approximately 5,000 words |
Project | Lwazi |
Source | Studio recordings; Web |
Stratum | Frequently occurring words (top 5,000 from available word lists). No proper names or foreign words included. |
Primary collection | Resource Catalogue |
Secondary collection | Resource Index |
ISO639 code | xho |
Submit date | 2018-02-05T20:22:50Z; 2018-03-05T17:56:04Z |
Date available | 2018-02-05T20:22:50Z; 2018-03-05T17:56:04Z |
Date created | 2013-04-01 |
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