POLISH PHONEME STATISTICS OBTAINED ON LARGE SET OF WRITTEN TEXTS

Bartosz Ziółko; Jakub Gałka; Mariusz Ziółko

doi:10.7494/csci.2009.10.3.97

Authors

Bartosz Ziółko AGH University of Science and Technology
Jakub Gałka AGH University of Science and Technology
Mariusz Ziółko AGH University of Science and Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7494/csci.2009.10.3.97

Keywords:

NLP, triphone statistics, speech processing, Polish

Abstract

The phonetical statistics were collected from several Polish corpora. The paper is a summaryof the data which are phoneme n-grams and some phenomena in the statistics. Triphonestatistics apply context-dependent speech units which have an important role in speech recognitionsystems and were never calculated for a large set of Polish written texts. The standardphonetic alphabet for Polish, SAMPA, and methods of providing phonetic transcriptions are described.

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Author Biographies

Bartosz Ziółko, AGH University of Science and Technology

Department of Electronics

Jakub Gałka, AGH University of Science and Technology

Department of Electronics

Mariusz Ziółko, AGH University of Science and Technology

Department of Electronics

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