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Title Regional Pronunciation Variants for Automatic Segmentation
Authors Beringer Nicole (Institut fuer Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation, Schellingstr. 3, D-80799 Muenchen, Germany, beringer@phonetik.uni-muenchen.de)
Neff Marcia (Institut fuer Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation, Schellingstr. 3, D-80799 Muenchen, Germany, maneff@phonetik.uni-muenchen.de)
Keywords ASR, German Dialectal Regions, MAUS, Regional Pronunciation Rules, Variants
Session Session SP1 - Phonetic Issues and Speech Synthesis
Full Paper 307.ps, 307.pdf
Abstract The goal of this paper is to create an extended rule corpus with approximately 2300 phonetic rules which model segmental variation of regional variants of German. The phonetic rules express at a broad-phonetic level phenomena of phonetic reduction in German that occurs within words and across word boundaries. In order to get an improvement in automatic segmentation of regional speech variants, these rules are clustered and implemented depending on regional specification in the Munich Automatic Segmentation System.