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NST Pronunciation Lexicon for Danish

This pronunciation lexicon for Danish was originally produced by Nordic Language Technology (NST), and contains approximately 238,000 entries. The word list consists of a frquency-based 100k list and some additional material.

The lexicon is available as one file in simple text format. Each entry/line contains 51 data fields, separated by a semicolon. Not all fields are equally relevant for all purposes, but given the format it is easy to extract the information you need.

The lexicon contains, among other things, information about the decomposition of compounds and one or more phonetic transcriptions. All transcriptions have been done manually. Some lexical tools that can be used to handle the lexicon, can be downloaded as a separate zip file.

The transcription format is SAMPA (Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet).

This pronunciation lexicon for Danish was originally produced by Nordic Language Technology (NST), and contains approximately 238,000 entries. The word list consists of a frquency-based 100k list and some additional material.

The lexicon is available as one file in simple text format. Each entry/line contains 51 data fields, separated by a semicolon. Not all fields are equally relevant for all purposes, but given the format it is easy to extract the information you need.

The lexicon contains, among other things, information about the decomposition of compounds and one or more phonetic transcriptions. All transcriptions have been done manually. Some lexical tools that can be used to handle the lexicon, can be downloaded as a separate zip file.

The transcription format is SAMPA (Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet).

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