@InProceedings{Ding2009_313,
author = {Hongwei Ding and Oliver Jokisch},
booktitle = {Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2009},
title = {An investigation of the pronunciation of English words in German sms texts},
year = {2009},
editor = {RĂ¼diger Hoffmann},
month = mar,
pages = {396--402},
publisher = {TUDpress, Dresden},
abstract = {This paper reports on pronunciation variations by German speakers
of English words in German SMS speech database. The text database contains
SMS communication in different domains, such as on holidays, families, congratulations,
schools, etc. As expected, there exist many English words in the German
texts. The speech database comprises 100 German speakers, these speakers are
chosen with balanced age, female-male difference and dialect region. There are 13
different promptsheets for the speakers to read, so that only 7 or 8 speakers share
the same promptsheet. Due to various characteristics of the English words and different
English levels of the speakers, the English words in German SMS texts are
pronounced in different ways, from standard pronunciation with an English accent
to very poor mispronunciation with a very strong German accent. It is thus important
to find out possible pronunciation variations of each word by average German
speakers. These pronunciation variants can be built into the lexicon for the speech
recognition of English words with German accent. It is further interesting to make
a statistical study on the realization of particular English phonemes by average German
speakers, the information can be exploited to derive pronunciation rules that
can be applied to new vocabulary. We have investigated the pronunciation variations
of all words that can have potential English pronunciations both at word level
and phoneme level, only selected examples will be presented in this paper.},
isbn = {978-3-941298-31-6},
issn = {0940-6832},
keywords = {Sprache und Didaktik},
url = {https://www.essv.de/pdf/2009_396_402.pdf},
}