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Grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) models are a key component in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, such as the ASR system in Alexa, as they are used to generate pronunciations for out-of-vocabulary words that do not exist in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Alex Sokolov , Tracy Rohlin , Ariya Rastrow

Grapheme-to-Phoneme (G2P) is an essential first step in any modern, high-quality Text-to-Speech (TTS) system. Most of the current G2P systems rely on carefully hand-crafted lexicons developed by experts. This poses a two-fold problem.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Abhinav Garg , Jiyeon Kim , Sushil Khyalia , Chanwoo Kim , Dhananjaya Gowda

Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion (g2p) is necessary for text-to-speech and automatic speech recognition systems. Most g2p systems are monolingual: they require language-specific data or handcrafting of rules. Such systems are difficult to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Ben Peters , Jon Dehdari , Josef van Genabith

Homograph disambiguation remains a significant challenge in grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion, especially for low-resource languages. This challenge is twofold: (1) creating balanced and comprehensive homograph datasets is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Mahta Fetrat Qharabagh , Zahra Dehghanian , Hamid R. Rabiee

Grapheme-based acoustic modeling has recently been shown to outperform phoneme-based approaches in both hybrid and end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR), even on non-phonemic languages like English. However, graphemic ASR still has…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Duc Le , Thilo Koehler , Christian Fuegen , Michael L. Seltzer

Conversion of Chinese Grapheme-to-Phoneme (G2P) plays an important role in Mandarin Chinese Text-To-Speech (TTS) systems, where one of the biggest challenges is the task of polyphone disambiguation. Most of the previous polyphone…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Chunyu Qiang , Peng Yang , Hao Che , Jinba Xiao , Xiaorui Wang , Zhongyuan Wang

As a key component of automated speech recognition (ASR) and the front-end in text-to-speech (TTS), grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) plays the role of converting letters to their corresponding pronunciations. Existing methods are either slow or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Chunfeng Wang , Peisong Huang , Yuxiang Zou , Haoyu Zhang , Shichao Liu , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma

The Grapheme-to-Phoneme (G2P) task aims to convert orthographic input into a discrete phonetic representation. G2P conversion is beneficial to various speech processing applications, such as text-to-speech and speech recognition. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Manuel Sam Ribeiro , Giulia Comini , Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba

Grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion is a crucial step in Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems, responsible for mapping grapheme to corresponding phonetic representations. However, it faces ambiguities problems where the same grapheme can represent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Dongrui Han , Mingyu Cui , Jiawen Kang , Xixin Wu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

The task of grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion is important for both speech recognition and synthesis. Similar to other speech and language processing tasks, in a scenario where only small-sized training data are available, learning G2P…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Kaili Vesik , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed , Miikka Silfverberg

Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer (T5) has recently been considered for the Grapheme-to-Phoneme (G2P) transduction. As a follow-up, a tokenizer-free byte-level model based on T5 referred to as ByT5, recently gave promising results on…

Conversion of Chinese graphemes to phonemes (G2P) is an essential component in Mandarin Chinese Text-To-Speech (TTS) systems. One of the biggest challenges in Chinese G2P conversion is how to disambiguate the pronunciation of polyphones -…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Kyubyong Park , Seanie Lee

Grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion is the process of converting the written form of words to their pronunciations. It has an important role for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis and automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. In this paper,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-24 Chendong Zhao , Jianzong Wang , Xiaoyang Qu , Haoqian Wang , Jing Xiao

Grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion is an important task in automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech systems. Recently, G2P conversion is viewed as a sequence to sequence task and modeled by RNN or CNN based encoder-decoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Hao Sun , Xu Tan , Jun-Wei Gan , Hongzhi Liu , Sheng Zhao , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

End-to-end speech synthesis models directly convert the input characters into an audio representation (e.g., spectrograms). Despite their impressive performance, such models have difficulty disambiguating the pronunciations of identically…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Artem Ploujnikov , Mirco Ravanelli

Grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion serves as an essential component in Chinese Mandarin text-to-speech (TTS) system, where polyphone disambiguation is the core issue. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end framework to predict the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Dongyang Dai , Zhiyong Wu , Shiyin Kang , Xixin Wu , Jia Jia , Dan Su , Dong Yu , Helen Meng

Gender biases in language generation systems are challenging to mitigate. One possible source for these biases is gender representation disparities in the training and evaluation data. Despite recent progress in documenting this problem and…

This study presents a novel approach to voice synthesis that can substitute the traditional grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion by using a deep learning-based model that generates discrete tokens directly from speech. Utilizing a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Joonyong Park , Daisuke Saito , Nobuaki Minematsu

Phonetic information and linguistic knowledge are an essential component of a Text-to-speech (TTS) front-end. Given a language, a lexicon can be collected offline and Grapheme-to-Phoneme (G2P) relationships are usually modeled in order to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Giulia Comini , Manuel Sam Ribeiro , Fan Yang , Heereen Shim , Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba

Grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion is an indispensable part of the Chinese Mandarin text-to-speech (TTS) system, and the core of G2P conversion is to solve the problem of polyphone disambiguation, which is to pick up the correct…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Song Zhang , Ken Zheng , Xiaoxu Zhu , Baoxiang Li
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