Generating a dictionary using FreeTTS

[kk_huk]

Hi guys,

I have tried to create a dictionary with following the "building a dictionary" documentation. In there, there are several tools that are mentioned to build a dictionary. And eventually, I have decided to use FreeTTS for it.

In the documentation, there is a link that might seems to show a tutorial or an example building a dictionary using FreeTTS. However I guess the mentioned link is wrong or something. This is the link ( https://sourceforge.net/p/cmusphinx/code/HEAD/tree/ )

My first question is "Is there any documentation that helps me to build a dictionary using FreeTTS ?"

I have looked for a discussion about it in FreeTTS's forum, but It doesn't help me to understand how I can do : https://sourceforge.net/p/freetts/discussion/137669/thread/b04b330b/

[Nickolay V. Shmyrev]

My first question is "Is there any documentation that helps me to build a dictionary using FreeTTS ?"

No. I suggest to use it our latest tool instead:

https://github.com/cmusphinx/g2p-seq2seq

[kk_huk]

Thanks for quick response Nickolay,

I need to create an dictionary automatically in user client. The tool is needed an TensorFlow installation. I can not tell my every users to install the TensorFlow.

By the way Is there any script to build a dictionary just like quick_lm ?

[Nickolay V. Shmyrev]

No, it is not a trivial operation. You can build a web service probably if you want to avoid software installation.

[kk_huk]

Thanks again Nickolay,

But I don't get it why generating a dictionary is a big deal.

Its just gives a word's phonetic spelling just like this

ADOPT AH D AA P T
ADOPTION AH D AA P SH AH N
ADULT AH D AH L T

Build a language model seems to me much important than "generating a dictionary".

Is there any documentation to understand why it is not a trivial operation ?

[Nickolay V. Shmyrev]

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/ru//pubs/archive/43264.pdf

[kk_huk]

Thank you very much Nickolay