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<Paper uid="P06-2114">
  <Title>Sinhala Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion and Rules for Schwa Epenthesis</Title>
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7 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, the problem of Sinhala grapheme-to-phoneme conversion is addressed with a special focus on dealing with the schwa epenthesis.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The proposed G2P conversion mechanism will be useful in various applications in the speech domain. To the best of our knowledge no other documented evidence has been reported for Sinhala grapheme-to-phoneme conversion in the literature. There are no other approaches available for the transcription of Sinhala text that provides a platform for comparison of the proposed rule-based method. The empirical evidence from a wide spectrum Sinhala corpus indicates that the proposed model can account for nearly 98% of cases accurately.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> The proposed G2P module is fully implemented in Sinhala TTS being developed at Language Technology Research Lab, UCSC. A demonstration tool of the proposed G2P module integrated with Sinhala syllabification algorithm proposed by Weerasinghe et al. (2005) is available for download from: http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/ltrl/downloads.html</Paragraph>
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