Paper Info
Title
Specific features of the Galician language and implications for speech technology development
Abstract
In this article, we present the main linguistic and phonetic features of Galician which need to be considered in the development of speech technology applications for this language. We also describe the solutions adopted in our text-to-speech system, also useful for speech recognition and speech-to-speech translation. On the phonetic plane in particular, the handling of vocal contact and the determination of mid-vowel openness are discussed. On the linguistic plane we place special emphasis on the handling of clitics and verbs. It should be noted that in Galician there is high interrelation between phonetics and grammatical information. Therefore, the task of morphosyntactic disambiguation is also addressed. Moreover, this task is fundamental for a higher level linguistic analysis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.specom.2008.02.004
Speech Communication
Keywords
Field
DocType
phonetic feature,iberian languages,speech technology,galician,mid-vowel openness,linguistic analysis,text-to-speech,main linguistic,specific feature,speech recognition,phonetic plane,speech technology application,high interrelation,linguistic plane,grammatical information,higher level linguistic analysis,speech technology development,galician language,physical sciences,text to speech
Speech processing,Computer science,Phonetics,Galician language,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Speech technology,Speech synthesis,Openness to experience,Speech recognition,Vowel,Linguistics,Linguistic analysis
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
50
11-12
Speech Communication
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.57
4
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manuel González González161.46
Eduardo Rodríguez Banga29410.48
Francisco Campillo Díaz3315.22
Francisco Méndez Pazó4112.70
Leandro Rodríguez Liñares5427.29
Gonzalo Iglesias61348.19