Phonetic conversion of borrowed words for a speech synthesizer in the Yakut language

Leontiev N. A.

This article describes the problem of pronunciation of borrowed words in a speech synthesizer in the Yakut language. The official spelling of the borrowed words is given, the national corpus of the Yakut language is analyzed. A variant of the pronunciation of borrowed words by replacing syllables with adapted versions is proposed.

Keywords:speech synthesis, language corpora, speech processing, borrowed words, Yakut language.