Konkani Phonetic Transcription System 1.0

A phonetic transcription system provides pronunciation of words, mostly in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) format. Phonetic transcription is the visual representation of phones in the form of characters and symbols represented in the IPA format. This paper describes the development of an automatic phonetic transcription system for an under-resourced Indian language, Konkani. In this paper, we have proposed an automatic phonetic word transcription generation system based on a set of deterministic linguistic rules mainly derived from the available work on Konkani literature. Some general rules, like Schwa deletion, are also considered in the design process. Parallel 101 sentences with 397 unique words have been used to test the accuracy of the system. Our system shows a Word Error Rate (WER) of 60, whereas existing system had a WER of 92.5.