Serial Number: http://www.riss.kr/link?id=A107124182

Title: The Problems and Improvement of Loanwords Pronunciation in Korean Text-to-speech(TTS) System

Author: Im Hyeonyeol

Journal: The Journal of Language & Literature

Vol: 83

Pages: 35-62

Date: 2020.

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<Abstract>

This study investigated whether the pronunciation of loanwords is well produced in the Korean TTS system, drew up its problems, and proposed ways to improve the problem from a Korean linguistics perspective. First, previous studies related to pronunciation processing of the Korean TTS system were reviewed, and items that could be problematic in the pronunciation processing of loanwords were extracted. As a result, word-initial tensification, lateralization and nasalization of /n-l(ㄴ-ㄹ)/ sequence, and vowel pronunciation were selected as problem items. Therefore, in this study, examples of each item were entered into the TTS system of Naver Papago and Google Translate to examine the pronunciation processing status, and a plan to improve pronunciation processing for the problematic item from the perspective of the Korean language was proposed. This study is meaningful in that it can provide a pronunciation processing manual that can be referred to when the TTS system processes loanwords for which the standard pronunciation is not determined. In addition, this discussion is expected to serve as a reference for establishing the standard pronunciation of Korean loanwords that have been placed as an external area of standard pronunciation until now