5.0372 Rs: French Text --> Phonetic Script (2/27)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 8 Oct 1991 21:16:36 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0372. Tuesday, 8 Oct 1991.
(1) Date: 7 Oct 1991 21:33:19 CDT (12 lines)
From: <KIBBEE@UIUCVMD>
Subject: reply
(2) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 91 09:36:09 -0230 (15 lines)
From: David Graham <dgraham@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: Grapheme to Phoneme in French
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Date: 7 Oct 1991 21:33:19 CDT
From: <KIBBEE@UIUCVMD>
Subject: reply
Michel Grimaud may want to get in touch with Fernand Marty
of the Dept of French, University of Illinois, Urbana IL 61801.
Professor Marty has now retired, but is still quite active.
Several years ago he developed a program to switch written
French to artificially produced speech. It must have involved
an intermediate step of phonetic representation such as Grimaud
desires.
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Date: Sat, 5 Oct 91 09:36:09 -0230
From: David Graham <dgraham@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: Grapheme to Phoneme in French
At the conference on CALL/CALA held last spring at the University of
Alberta, Norris Weimer of that institution presented a demonstration of
a system (for Macintosh) which will do at least some of what Michel
Grimaud wants. Weimer has developed what seem like robust algorithms to
convert text to phonetic script, but there is no provision for automatic
conversion of a large text such as Grimaud describes. I don't have
Weimer's e-address to hand, but perhaps someone else can supply it.
David Graham, Dept of French & Spanish ** dgraham@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Memorial University of Newfoundland ** dgraham@morgan.ucs.mun.ca