Typical letter-to-sound rule sets are those described by Ainsworth ( 1973 ) , McIlroy ( 1973 ) , Elovitz et al. ( 1976 ) , Hurmicutt ( 1976 ) , and Divay and Vitale ( 1997 ) .
algorithms for graphemephoneme translation for english and french applications for database searches and speech synthesis
Michel Divay Anthony J Vitale
Conventionally , these rules are specified by an expert linguist , conversant with the sound and spelling systems of the language of concern . Typical letter-to-sound rule sets are those described by Ainsworth ( 1973 ) , McIlroy ( 1973 ) , Elovitz et al. ( 1976 ) , Hurmicutt ( 1976 ) , and Divay and Vitale ( 1997 ) . Because of the complexities of English spelling-to-sound correspondence detailed in the previous section , more than one rule generally applies at each stage of transcription .
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