Segre
Rule-based automatic phonetic transcription system for Catalan, jointly developed by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Universitat de Barcelona in the framework of the Catalan Reference Centre for Language Engineering (CREL). The syntax of the rules has been designed to obtain phonetic transcriptions for four major dialects of Catalan: the Central or Eastern dialect, spoken in the East of Catalonia, the North-Western or Western dialect, spoken in the West of Catalonia (including the South), the Balearic, spoken in the Balearic Islands, and finally the Valencian, spoken in the Valencian Community. The transcriptor has been designed in a very flexible way, since the rules are not fed to the program, which has very little hardwired knowledge. They are defined externally and specified in a number of ASCII text files following a simple syntax for grapheme-to-allophone and allophone-to-allophone conversion rules, the latter necessary to obtain those modifications due to coarticulation phenomena across word boundaries. So, the tool provides a phonetic transcription, as broad or narrow as desired, in isolated mode (without coarticulation across word boundaries) or in text mode (with coarticulation between words).
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