Phonetics Matching Approach for Converting System of Phonetics Transcriptions to Myanmar Text

Abstract

Converting system of phonetics transcriptions to Myanmar text is intended to contribute as a portion of speech to text system of Myanmar language. In Myanmar language, the spoken language may be different with the written language in many cases. Phonetics transcriptions represent spoken language and Myanmar text represents written language. This paper proposed the phonetic string matching scheme that aligned between the phonetics transcriptions and the Myanmar text. Phonetics string matching is a research area of information retrieval systems, search systems, data mining, text and web-mining, speech recognition, and pattern recognition systems. The proposed system idea is come from the popular phonetic string matching algorithm called Soundex. The main difference between the proposed system and the original Soundex algorithm is that the proposed system is completely converted from text to phonetics symbols and then encoded of that symbol to relevant code points for accuracy.