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In this work, a methodology to analyze words that are homographs and heterophones is proposed to be applied in a Brazilian Portuguese text-to-speech system. The reasoning is based on grammatical construction. An algorithm structured on the presented methodology was implemented to solve the reading decision problem for the word sede giving rise to 95,0% of accuracy rate when tested on the CETEN-Folha text database.
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Barbosa, F., Ferrari, L., Resende, F.G. (2003). A Methodology to Analyze Homographs for a Brazilian Portuguese TTS System. In: Mamede, N.J., Trancoso, I., Baptista, J., das Graças Volpe Nunes, M. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2721. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45011-4_8
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