I need a NON COPYRIGHT EDITABLE wordlist of 15,000 or more English
words with the IPA or other pronunciation guide on the same line as
the English word. I need to change the IPA or other charachters for my
own thereby making my own wordlist of English words with my phonetic
equivalent next to them. The pronunciation must be English UK not
English US. |
Request for Question Clarification by
websearcher-ga
on
14 Mar 2005 11:25 PST
Hello gupara:
There are certainly pronunciation dictionaries out there for UK
English that contain well in excess of 15,000 words - in the format
you request. However, the best ones that I've been able to find are
academic in nature, and while they are free of copyright for
academic/research purposes, are copyrighted against commercial use.
Are you planning to use this data commercially?
Thanks.
websearcher
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Clarification of Question by
gupara-ga
on
14 Mar 2005 11:53 PST
Yes I do wish to use my end work commercially. So I do need a
non-copyright list which meets my criteria but would still like any
other links to any other lists you could find as outlined in your
first reply as I might be able to negotiate with a copyright holder on
this matter as I consider that improvement of written English is an
important work and hope that a copyright holder may waive the
copyright status of their work. Let's go forward on the original
request and if that doesn't work/if you can't help then maybe we could
sort something out on the knowledge that you already have. Thanks
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Request for Question Clarification by
websearcher-ga
on
14 Mar 2005 13:20 PST
Hello gupara:
Thanks for the clarification. I've looked high and low for a
non-copyrighted UK English pronunciation dictionary for you, but have
come up empty.
If you would like to start contacting people with the *for research
only* pronunciation dictionaries to ask if they'd bend the rules for
you, I suggest you start with:
British English Example Pronunciation Dictionary (BEEP)
URL: http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~ajr/wsjcam0/node8.html
Quote: "The pronunciation dictionary on first release contains over
96,000 word definitions. Its format has been designed with machine
readability a primary factor. It is thus unashamedly simple and an
extract is included below."
The pronunciations are not IPA, but are in a very usable format - as
you can see from visiting the above link.
I have downloaded the entire BEEP package, which can be found at:
ftp://svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk/pub/comp.speech/dictionaries/beep.tar.gz
and have untarred the file. I have examined the "beep-1.0" file and
there are over 250,000 words listed one per line, with pronunciations
on the same line.
The README file in that package lists the copyright information as:
"The pronunciation dictionary is derived in part from the Oxford Text
Archive releases 710 and 1054. These are copyrighted by Oxford
University Press (OUP) and the Medical research council (MRC). This
work inherits the following restrictions:
a) The dictionary may only be used for research (from MRC sources)
b) The dictionary must not be used commercially (from OUP sources)"
and the contact information (from the same README) is:
Tony Robinson
ajr@eng.cam.ac.uk
Cambridge University
Engineering Department
Trumpington Street
Cambridge, UK
I am posting this as a Clarification Request instead of an answer
because we haven't really got you what you need yet. Let me know how
things work out and, if you are eventually satisfied, I can post an
official answer and collect the fee.
Thanks.
websearcher
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Clarification of Question by
gupara-ga
on
14 Mar 2005 23:44 PST
Hi websearcher,
Thanks for those two. I came up with 2 American ones but no English
ones so we have progressed a little. It's Monday at 8.30 so I'm off to
work, will look at answer in more detail this p.m.
Thanks
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