Transcribing Bengali Text with Regional Dialects to IPA using District Guided Tokens

arXiv:2403.17407v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Accurate transcription of Bengali text to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a challenging task due to the complex phonology of the language and context-dependent sound changes. This challenge is even more for regional Bengali dialects due to unavailability of standardized spelling conventions for these dialects, presence of local and foreign words popular in those regions and phonological diversity across different regions. This paper presents an approach to this sequence-to-sequence problem by introducing the District …

arxiv cs.ai cs.cl cs.lg regional text tokens type