Lwazi Tshivenda Pronunciation Dictionary

Title	Lwazi Tshivenda Pronunciation Dictionary
Description	General phonemic pronunciations for frequently occurring words in SA languages. Dictionaries were developed to be practically usable for speech technology systems, rather than phonetically accurate. Audio samples of all phonemes included. A letter-to-sound rule set for predicting the pronunciations of generic words included. (Separate entry describes rule sets.)
Contact name	Karen Calteaux
Contact email	KCalteaux@csir.co.za
Publisher(s)	Meraka Institute, CSIR
License	Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/za/legalcode
Language(s)	Tshivenda
Author(s)	Marelie Davel
Citation	M Davel and O Martirosian, "Pronunciation dictionary development in resource-scarce environments", In Proc. Interspeech, Brighton, UK, September 2009, pp 2851-2854.
URI	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12185/288
ISLRN	585-115-029-745-3
Media type	Speech
Type	Data
Media category	Pronunciation dictionaries
Format extent	1.2Mb zipped; 1.8Mb unzipped
Version	1.2
Format size	Approximately 5,000 words
Project	Lwazi
Source	Studio recordings; Web
Stratum	Frequently occurring words (top 5,000 from available word lists). No proper names or foreign words included.
Primary collection	Resource Catalogue
Secondary collection	Resource Index
ISO639 code	ven
Submit date	2018-02-05T20:22:53Z; 2018-03-05T17:45:16Z
Date available	2018-02-05T20:22:53Z; 2018-03-05T17:45:16Z
Date created	2013-04-01

Resource Catalogue [335]
A collection of language resources available for download from the RMA of SADiLaR. The collection mostly consists of resources developed with funding from the Department of Arts and Culture.
Resource Index [386]
A collection of language resource metadata mostly collected during the NHN funded technology audit of 2009, as well as the SADiLaR technology audit of 2018. Not all resources in this collection are available for download.