Learning to Pronounce Chinese Without a Pronunciation Dictionary

10/09/2020

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by   Christopher Chu, et al.

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We demonstrate a program that learns to pronounce Chinese text in Mandarin, without a pronunciation dictionary. From non-parallel streams of Chinese characters and Chinese pinyin syllables, it establishes a many-to-many mapping between characters and pronunciations. Using unsupervised methods, the program effectively deciphers writing into speech. Its token-level character-to-syllable accuracy is 89 accuracy of prior work.