Tag: pronunciation

用 YouTube 上的影片查發音

「Improve your English pronunciation using Youtube」這個服務利用 YouTube 上的影片與字幕提供界面，讓你可以知道現實世界的人怎麼發音的查詢系統。

系統本身不難做，主要是去撈大量資料，然後建立 search engine 提供，idea 與執行才是這個服務的賣點。

拿到後第一個想到的就是，一定要拿來查一下「IKEA」怎麼唸 XDDD

除了英文以外還可以查其他語言，包括中文...

Amazon Transcribe 增加許多客製化功能

Amazon Transcribe 是 AWS 提供的語音辨識服務，最近發表了不少可以客製化的功能：「Amazon Transcribe enhances custom vocabulary with custom pronunciations and display forms」。

一個是可以增加字彙，包括他的發音 (不過得透過 IPA 標，這邊會需要學一些東西)：

You can give Amazon Transcribe more information about how to process speech in your input audio or video file by creating a custom vocabulary. A custom vocabulary is a list of specific words that you want Amazon Transcribe to recognize in your audio input. These are generally domain-specific words and phrases, words that Amazon Transcribe isn't recognizing, or proper nouns.

Now, with the use of characters from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), you can enhance each custom terminology with corresponding custom pronunciations. Alternatively, you can also use the standard orthography of the language to mimic the way that the word or phrase sounds.

另外是定義詞彙的標示方法：

Additionally, you can now designate exactly how a customer terminology should be displayed when it is transcribed (e.g. “Street” as “St.” versus “ST”).

這對於專有名詞的部份應該是很好用？像是人名...