Weerasinghe, A.R.Wasala, R.A.Gamage, K.N.2014-11-132014-11-132006http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/2880This paper describes an architecture to convert Sinhala Unicode text into phonemic specification of pronunciation. The study was mainly focused on disambiguating schwa-/\/ and /a/ vowel epenthesis for consonants, which is one of the significant problems found in Sinhala. This problem has been addressed by formulating a set of rules. The proposed set of rules was tested using 30,000 distinct words obtained from a corpus and com-pared with the same words manually transcribed to phonemes by an expert. The Grapheme-to-Phoneme (G2P) con-version model achieves 98 % accuracy.Sinhalese language, Sri LankaGraphemicsTransmutation (Linguistics)ArticleLinguistics