Hello All Researchers,

Introduction ::
We All are familiar with dictionaries! We all have used dictionaries
several times for our language needs :-) Remember that when we to look
up for a word in a dictionary, Then the dictionary also tells us (with
the help of certain symbols) about "How to PRONOUNCE that word" or
"How does that word SOUND like"???

What I am Looking for ::
I am looking for something EXACTLY similar to this >>
http://dictionary.reference.com/help/ahd4/pronkey.html. This webpage
contains a complete list of all such symbols which are used to help
the reader understand how the particular Word is Pronounced. In front
of each symbol, they have written a word for Example. And they have
Also bolded the characters in each corresponding word explaining
"which characters of that word" together produce the sound which that
"symbol" is produces!. I need an EXACTLY similar list. But that list
should contain lot MORE number of "example words" corresponding to
each symbol.

My Objective behind it ::
My objective is to collect All possible characters or "group of
characters" that together sound like the corresponding symbol! I want
to prepare a short database of ALL the characters that together sound
like the corresponding symbol you have written. So Please make sure
that you do not add such words which Repeat the Characters or "group
of chracters" sounding that corresponding symbol which you have
already mentioned in an earlier in an another word.

I hope you now Understood what I am looking for. Feel free to ask If
you have any Questions or Queries. Feel free to tell me if any part of
the description is unclear and i would Try to elaborate that part of
description MORE. Please bid for this question with a Small
description descripbing how you are gonna do it why do you thin. I am
not Certain about the budget of this question. So the price can be
negotiable.

Happy Bidding :-)

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Request for Question Clarification by philip_lynx-ga on 02 Apr 2004 03:22 PST

Dear tushargoswami-ga,

I am sorry if I am ruining a perfectly good question -- but what you are
asking for is still a research problem -- i.e. the one of making a speech
synthesis algorithm sound 'right'. Once you know what a particular sequence
of letters should sound like, you can then generate and emit the matching
phoneme. Now, phonemes come in quite a large variety, and things aren't
quite as simple...

I'd like to recommend to you to have a look at the Handbook of the 
International Phonetic Association (IPA), ISBN 0-521-63751-1. They offer
a standardized phonetic alphabet, and a treatment covering about all 
'speech' and even some non-speech sounds in their handbook, and give 
various in-depth examples in 20+ languages. This goes at least halfways 
towards answering your question, and also outlines why it is hard to find
what you are looking for. I personally found it a quite fascinating read.

Also of interest could be the IPA website:
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html The site offers a full chart of
the phonetic alphabet ( http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/fullchart.html ),
which is explained in the 200-page handbook, fonts to use it on the
computer, and audio files corresponding to the samples in the handbook.

This does not really answer your question, which is why you are receiving
this feedback as a clarification. If you find the information provided
here useful to some little extent, I'd happily post this as an answer --
but only after you have adjusted the price significantly downward ;-)

Friendly greetings,

   Philip Lynx

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Request for Question Clarification by hedgie-ga on 11 Apr 2004 13:42 PDT

hello swami

I think I understand your question.
I will rephrase it. Please let me know if it indeed is
what you are looking for.

1) English has some 50 phonems (sounds).
2) In some 100,000 words, each phoneme  is expressed by many strings

  string here means a set of characters, from 2 to 3 or 5

You want for each phonem
  list of  (all) strings which express that phoneme

Is that the task?

for example for phoneme we hear in words floor, door,  ..

strings are  oo  as in door
             ao  as in chateao
              o   as in more

etc