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From: ajr@eng.cam.ac.uk (Tony Robinson)
Subject: Re: Amer.-Engl. pronunciation lexicon
In-Reply-To: besling@ds5mi2.pfa.philips.de's message of Fri, 28 Jan 1994 08:59:58 GMT
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In article <BESLING.94Jan28095958@ds5mi2.pfa.philips.de> besling@ds5mi2.pfa.philips.de (Stefan Besling) writes:
> 
> I am in search of a pronunciation lexicon for American English
> (needless to say that it should be veeery large and of high quality :-).
> 
> Does anyone have suggestions / experiences concerning available stuff
> in machine-readable form ?

You should certainly take a look at the 100,000 word CMU dictionary in

	ftp.cs.cmu.edu:project/fgdata/dict

I'm currently trying to work out an automatic way to approximate British
English pronunciations for the infrequent words in this set - anyone out
there got experience of this problem?

Tony Robinson
