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In this paper we describe the part of the text preprocessing module in our text-to-speech synthesis system which converts numerals written as figures into a readable full-length form, which could be processed by a phonetic transcription module. The numerals conversion is a significant issue in inflectional language as Czech, Russian or Slovak because morphological and semantic information is necessary to make the conversion unambiguous. In the paper three part-of-speech tagging methods are compared. Furthermore, a method reducing the tagset to increase the numerals conversion accuracy is presented in the paper.
Support for this work was provided by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic (MŠMT LC536).
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Zelinka, J., Kanis, J., Müller, L. (2005). Automatic Transcription of Numerals in Inflectional Languages. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P., Pavelka, T. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3658. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11551874_42
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