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Grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion for Persian presents unique challenges due to its complex phonological features, particularly homographs and Ezafe, which exist in formal and informal language contexts. This paper introduces an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Abbas Bertina , Shahab Beirami , Hossein Biniazian , Elham Esmaeilnia , Soheil Shahi , Mahdi Pirnia

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

Grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion is critical in speech processing, particularly for applications like speech synthesis. G2P systems must possess linguistic understanding and contextual awareness of languages with polyphone words and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Mahta Fetrat Qharabagh , Zahra Dehghanian , Hamid R. Rabiee

Grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) transduction is part of the standard text-to-speech (TTS) pipeline. However, G2P conversion is difficult for languages that contain heteronyms -- words that have one spelling but can be pronounced in multiple ways.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Jocelyn Huang , Evelina Bakhturina , Oktai Tatanov

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

Homograph disambiguation, the task of distinguishing words with identical spellings but different meanings, poses a substantial challenge in natural language processing. In this study, we introduce a novel dataset tailored for Persian…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Seyed Moein Ayyoubzadeh , Kourosh Shahnazari

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

Deep learning enables the development of efficient end-to-end speech processing applications while bypassing the need for expert linguistic and signal processing features. Yet, recent studies show that good quality speech resources and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Adriana Stan

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

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

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) 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) 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

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

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 few-shot visual dubbing focuses on synchronizing the lip movements with arbitrary speech input for any talking head video. Albeit moderate improvements in current approaches, they commonly require high-quality homologous data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Tianyi Xie , Liucheng Liao , Cheng Bi , Benlai Tang , Xiang Yin , Jianfei Yang , Mingjie Wang , Jiali Yao , Yang Zhang , Zejun Ma

Lexical ambiguity, a challenging phenomenon in all natural languages, is particularly prevalent for languages with diacritics that tend to be omitted in writing, such as Arabic. Omitting diacritics leads to an increase in the number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Sawsan Alqahtani , Hanan Aldarmaki , Mona Diab

Spotting user-defined/flexible keywords represented in text frequently uses an expensive text encoder for joint analysis with an audio encoder in an embedding space, which can suffer from heterogeneous modality representation (i.e., large…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Kumari Nishu , Minsik Cho , Paul Dixon , Devang Naik

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

Grapheme-to-Phoneme (G2P) models convert words to their phonetic pronunciations. Classic G2P methods include rule-based systems and pronunciation dictionaries, while modern G2P systems incorporate learning, such as, LSTM and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Eric Engelhart , Mahsa Elyasi , Gaurav Bharaj
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