A Tool for Scholarly Phonemic Transcription of Ukrainian Texts

Abstract

This article aims to present an instrument for phonemic transcription of Ukrainian texts that is necessary for phonetic studies, lexicographic work, and in text-to-speech conversion, machine translation, information retrieval, automatic speech recognition, language model transfer, and other natural language processing tasks. The tool provides an automatic scholarly transcription of Ukrainian texts into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and the Extended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (X-SAMPA).