Automatic rule-based syllabication for Romanian

Abstract

The syllable is a speech synthesis unit that is successfully used in high quality speech synthesis systems. In support of a syllable based speech synthesis system, we consider necessary the realization of an algorithm for automatic syllabication. In this paper we present an algorithm for automatic syllabication. The algorithm starts by making the phonetic transcription of the word using a previously developed method which employs a set of phonetic rules represented through a XML scheme. Then it applies a set of rules for syllabication. The system obtained a 10.5% word error rate for syllabication and 4.79% word error rate for phonetic transcription using rules.

Predicting Romanian Stress Assignment

“…Even if they are closely related, Romanian stress and syllabication were unevenly studied in the computational linguistic literature, i.e., the Romanian syllable received much more attention than the Romanian stress (Dinu and Dinu, 2005;Dinu, 2003;Dinu et al, 2013;Toma et al, 2009). One possible explanation for the fact that Romanian syllabication was more intensively studied than Romanian stress is the immediate application of syllabication to text editors which need reliable hyphenation.…”