Virtual Agent 1 Dialog Manager Resources Input Technologies Output Technologies Data User © 2013 by Larson Technical Services Pronunciation Lexicon Pronunciation.

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Virtual Agent 1 Dialog Manager Resources Input Technologies Output Technologies Data User © 2013 by Larson Technical Services Pronunciation Lexicon Pronunciation Lexicon

Pronunciation Requires extensive linguistic expertise and experience Multiple notations for representing pronunciation © 2013 by Larson Technical Services2

IPA Consonants © 2013 by Larson Technical Services3

IPA Vowels © 2013 by Larson Technical Services4

A Library? Share descriptions with multiple applications Trained expert creates the library, so application developers don’t need linguistic skills © 2013 by Larson Technical Services5

Pronunciation Lexicon Specification— PLS tomato təmei̥ɾou̥ UTF-8 representation for IPA phonetic string "təmei̥ɾou̥" © 2013 by Larson Technical Services6