Reading an English Word

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Hello,

I want to make a program that reads a given English word in real time.
I have 2 ideas to make it but I need some guidance threw them

1) is to make have a database with all the English words and a pronunciation for each word, so given a word I will have to look for it in the DB and play the word

Problems that I face:
A) I cant find a DB with all the pronunciation of English words
B) I am afraid that searching in such DB would take long time to be a Real Time Program, but it shouldn't be that bad as maximum number of words would be around 450,000 words.

2) is to have a pronunciation for each alphabetical letter (maybe stored in a DB) and for each combination of letters that have different pronunciation like 'oo' and 'o' etc...
Problems:
A) The same first problem, is there such a DB ??
B) will this way work with good performance ??

Thanks in advance,

Posted 1-Dec-12 18:46pm

Kasparov92

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ridoy 2-Dec-12 5:57am

Do you know about SAPI which works fairly well?It is efficient enough to read a word and it is called text to speech recognition.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-01T19:00:00

The "DB with all the pronunciation of English words" does exist (well, "all words" would be some exaggeration :-)). It is called DictationGrammar:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.speech.recognition.dictationgrammar.aspx[^].

Now, here is the trouble: I tried it with both SpeechRecognizer and SpeechRecognitionEngine (please see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms554855.aspx[^]), on Windows 7. Small per-application grammars work fairly well, large grammars cause trouble, and the quality of recognition with dictation is so poor that it does not worth the effort. Try it to see.

Reportedly, recognitions engines with decent dictation quality exist, but the one downloadable for Windows looks like rotten good. It's good only for simple recognition chores, not dictation. Pity.

[EDIT]

In response to the follow-up question:

Now, the opposite: nothing much to seek for: use the same assembly and the peer namespace: System.Speech.Synthesis:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.speech.synthesis.aspx[^].

Apparently, this is much easier. :-)

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**AmitGajjar** · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-01T19:06:00

Hi

sorry for your first answer, Hope first solution helps you in that.

For your second question, you can rate each word by their frequency of use. by that way you can filter out lease frequently used words. so you do not need to fetch 450000 words from the database. Although i have never try so try from your side and don't forget to post your review.

hope this information helps you.

Reading an English Word

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