OVERVIEW OF SURNAME PRONUNCIATION GENERATION PROBLEM
- Generate pronunciations of a surname from text-only spelling
of the surname for speech recognition and related voice applications
- We have 18,494 names and 25,648 manually transcribed
pronunciations in the database
- Sample names and their corresponding pronunciations
| Bridges |
b 9r I _ dZ & z |
| Bridges |
b 9r I _ dZ E z |
| King |
k I N _ |
| Picone |
p I k oU n i: |