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Automatic Discovery of Brazilian Portuguese Letter to Phoneme Conversion Rules through Genetic Programming

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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR 2003)

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Letter to phoneme conversion is a basic step in Speech Synthesis processes. Traditionally, the activity involves the implementation of rules that define the mapping of letters into sounds. This paper presents results of the application of an evolutionary computation technique (Genetic Programming), in Brazilian Portuguese synthesis, aiming to discover automatically programs implementing specific synthesis rules.

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Franzen, E., Barone, D.A.C. (2003). Automatic Discovery of Brazilian Portuguese Letter to Phoneme Conversion Rules through Genetic Programming. 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_9

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