Automatic Syllabification of Polish

This paper presents an approach to automatic detection of syllable boundaries for Polish speech based on a phonetized text input. First, we discuss selected issues of syllable structure in Polish with a special focus on the needs of rule-based automatic insertion of syllable boundaries. We summarize and verify an existing rule-set for Polish, which is subsequently used as an input information for automatic syllabification with SPPAS, a freely available multiplatform software tool. Then, the applied syllabification methodology is described and illustrated with examples obtained with a Polish speech corpus. Finally, the paper provides information about the syllabification module for Polish that has been implemented as one of the latest extensions of SPPAS.

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