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Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech, or—in the case of sign languages—the equivalent aspects of sign.

It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds or signs (phones): their physiological production, acoustic properties, auditory perception, and neurophysiological status. Phonology, on the other hand, is concerned with the abstract, grammatical characterization of systems of sounds or signs.

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how to check if a string looks randomized, or human generated and pronouncable?

For the purpose of identifying [possible] bot-generated usernames. Suppose you have a username like "bilbomoothof" .. it may be nonsense, but it still contains pronouncable sounds and so appears human-generated. I accept that it could have been…
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How can I measure the similarity between 2 strings?

Given two strings text1 and text2: public SOMEUSABLERETURNTYPE Compare(string text1, string text2) { // DO SOMETHING HERE TO COMPARE } Examples: First String: StackOverflow Second String: StaqOverflow Return: Similarity is 91% The return can…
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Where can I obtain an English dictionary with structured data?

I would like to download an English dictionary -- not just a word list -- in a structured format such as TXT, XML, or SQL. Specifically, I need phonetic pronunciation and parts of speech (definition is not required). Surprisingly, I can't find this…
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Is there a text-to-speech software that accepts IPA-based phonetic transcription?

I would like to translate phonetic text (IPA) to synthesized speech. No TTS software that I have found can do this and I can't find any other software either. Any tip? Is this even doable in theory with decent quality or isn't the phonetic text (IPA…
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Phonetic search for Indian languages

I want to compare strings phonetically in my android app. But the special case here is, I want to compare Indian language words written in English. For example, I want to check if "Edhu" "Adhu" "Yethu" are phonetically equal, they all mean the same…
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metaphone versus soundex versus NYSIIS

I'm trying to come up with an implicit spell checker that will use the mappings of input words to some kind of more general phonetic representation to account for typos that might occur, basically for a search bar that will automatically correct…
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How can I check if a string can be pronounced?

I would like to programmatically check whether a string can be pronounced or needs to be spelled out. For example, internationalization can be read out, but i18n cannot, nor can hhdirgxzf. I can think of some simple heuristics such as checking…
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Getting pronunciation of a word using Google Translate API

I am trying to save the pronunciation of a French word into a .wav or .mp3 file. I was wondering if there was anywhere on the Google Translate API (since it has a pronunciation functionality) that allows me to achieve this objective. Other…
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What is the Metaphone 3 Algorithm?

I want to code the Metaphone 3 algorithm myself. Is there a description? I know the source code is available for sale but that is not what I am looking for.
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Ellipse containing percentage of given points in R

I'm drawing F1/F2 vowel graph (an example is here). Each vowel has several points/values, and I'd like to draw an ellipse around the points, so that: ellipse covers at least 80% of points (ie. in the picture above "i" has several values, but they…
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compare short strings in different languages for similar sound - is Soundex the answer?

How could i get a sound similarity "rating" for a string written in one language with another string in another language: i.e an algorithm that will identify that "David Letterman" and "דוד לטרמן" are strings that sound alike. -Oh, yes, btw the…
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Has Soundex been improved?

Soundex seems to be implemented in some DBMS's, but have there been any algorithmic improvements that are definitively better than the current implementation of Soundex?
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Pronouncing dictionaries

Are there any alternatives to The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, commercial or open source?
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How to go about making an untrained speech to text converter?

I have a severe to profound deafness from a very early age but luckily I can speak like a normal person. Verbal communication has always been difficult for me due to my impaired speech recognition abilities even with lip-reading. I have gone through…
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How can I get this switch statement to work using a scanner?

I'm trying to write a program that will switch any letter of the alphabet (upper or lower cases) into the Phontic alphabet. For example, If I enter "A" or "a" my program will give me (change it to) "Alpha". I've done so much research on this and…
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