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Lwazi isiXhosa Pronunciation Dictionary

dc.contact.emailKCalteaux@csir.co.za
dc.contact.nameKaren Calteaux
dc.contributor.authorMarelie Davel
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-05T20:22:50Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-05T17:56:04Z
dc.date.available2018-02-05T20:22:50Z
dc.date.available2018-03-05T17:56:04Z
dc.date.issued2013-04-01
dc.descriptionGeneral 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.)
dc.format.extent1.6Mb zipped; 2.7Mb unzipped
dc.format.sizeApproximately 5,000 words
dc.identifier.citationM Davel and O Martirosian, "Pronunciation dictionary development in resource-scarce environments", In Proc. Interspeech, Brighton, UK, September 2009, pp 2851-2854.
dc.identifier.islrn166-651-381-757-8
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12185/461
dc.language.isoxho
dc.languagesisiXhosa
dc.media.categoryPronunciation dictionaries
dc.media.typeSpeech
dc.projectLwazi
dc.publisherMeraka Institute, CSIR
dc.rights.licenseCreative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/za/legalcode
dc.sourceStudio recordings
dc.sourceWeb
dc.stratumFrequently occurring words (top 5,000 from available word lists). No proper names or foreign words included.
dc.titleLwazi isiXhosa Pronunciation Dictionary
dc.typeData
dc.version1.2
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