摘要 |
In the method of constructing a stunted phonetic-type word baseform of phones each fenemic phone in the fenemic phone word baseform is replaced by the corresponding composite phone corresponding. At least one pair of adjacent composite phones are merged together by a single composite phone where the adverse effect of the merging is below a predefined threshold. The two steps are repeated until a word baseform of given length is achieved. In the merging step one pair of adjacent composite phones may be replaced by a single composite phone, so that the replacing results in less adverse effect than the replacing of any other two adjacent composite phones by a single composite phone. |