IPA Transcription of Bengali Texts
Kanij Fatema Fazle Dawood Haider Nirzona Ferdousi Turpa Tanveer Azmal Sourav Ahmed Navid Hasan Mohammad Akhlaqur Rahman Biplab Kumar Sarkar Afrar Jahin Md. Rezuwan Hassan Md Foriduzzaman Zihad Rubayet Sabbir Faruque Asif Sushmit Mashrur Imtiaz Farig Sadeque Syed Shahrier Rahman
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) serves to systematize phonemes in
language, enabling precise textual representation of pronunciation. In Bengali
phonology and phonetics, ongoing scholarly deliberations persist concerning the
IPA standard and core Bengali phonemes. This work examines prior research,
identifies current and potential issues, and suggests a framework for a Bengali
IPA standard, facilitating linguistic analysis and NLP resource creation and
downstream technology development. In this work, we present a comprehensive
study of Bengali IPA transcription and introduce a novel IPA transcription
framework incorporating a novel dataset with DL-based benchmarks.