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Phonemizing User-Generated Text: A Benchmark, Taxonomy, and Compositional Approach
Text-to-speech systems increasingly process user-generated text (UGT) such as ppl and imo, whose pronunciation must be inferred from the canonical rather than surface form. We introduce UGTPhon, the first grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) benchmark for UGT in English, Vietnamese, and Korean, together with an inference-grounded …