Automatic generation of phonetic transcriptions for large speech corpora. ICSLP

We describe a method for the automatic production of phonetic transcriptions in large speech corpora. First, we focus on the appli-cation of different techniques for the generation of pronunciation variants. Then, we explain the application of a speech recognition system for selecting the acoustically best matching phonetic tran-scription. The system is evaluated on different test sets selected from the Spoken Dutch Corpus, ranging from read-aloud text to spontaneous speech, and achieves promising first results. 1