README.md

Lexicon data from publicly available resources

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (US English)

File name: cmudict-0.7b-ws.utf8

• Fetched from http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict
• Converted from Latin-1 to utf-8
• Converted to Wikispeech-internal format, and transcriptions mapped to en-us WS-SAMPA

Reference: steps taken to convert to Wikispeech format

NST Swedish Pronouncing Dictionary (Swedish/Sweden)

File name: sv-se/nst/swe030224NST.pron-ws.utf8.gz

• Fetched from http://www.nb.no/sbfil/leksikalske_databaser/leksikon/sv.leksikon.tar.gz
• Converted from Latin-1 to utf-8
• Converted to Wikispeech-internal format, and transcriptions mapped to sv-se WS-SAMPA

Reference: steps taken to convert to Wikispeech format

NST Bokmål Pronouncing Dictionary (Norwegian Bokmål/Norway)

File name: nb-no/nst/nor030224NST.pron-ws.utf8.gz

• Fetched from http://www.nb.no/sbfil/leksikalske_databaser/leksikon/no.leksikon.tar.gz
• Converted from Latin-1 to utf-8
• Converted to Wikispeech-internal format, and transcriptions mapped to nb-no WS-SAMPA

Reference: steps taken to convert to Wikispeech format

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Description of the Wikispeech lexicon file format

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This work was supported by the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS) through the grant "Wikispeech – en användargenererad talsyntes på Wikipedia" (2016–2017).