Workstation-based phonetic typewriter

Abstract

The author presents a general description of his 'phonetic typewriter' system that transcribes unlimited speech into orthographically correct text. The purpose of this paper is to motivate certain choices made in the partitioning of the problem into tasks and describe their implementation. The combination of algorithms he has selected has proven effective for well-articulated dictation in a phonemic language such as Finnish and Japanese, whereas for English and many other languages that are organized differently in the phonological sense, an optimal solution may look completely different.<>