METHOD AND DEVICE TO GENERATE PLURAL PLAUSIBLE PRONUNCIATION OF INTRINSIC NAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To identify plural plausible pronunciations of a given person's name and to apply a set of such 'allowable' pronunciations to a specific speaker group. SOLUTION: The method is used to generate plural plausible pronunciations of an intrinsic name, i.e., the method is used to execute voice recognition of uttering including a person's intrinsic name within a given speaker group. The method has (a) a step which identifies more than one language among plural languages as the origins of a possible intrinsic name and (b) a step which generates plural plausible pronunciations for the given intrinsic name based on identified languages and more than one characteristic related to the given speaker group. The characteristic of the group is for example a national origin of the group (the mother language speaker of the origin language of the intrinsic name has a high probability of using a character-sound conversion rule of the mother language).