A Verified Arabic-IPA Mapping for Arabic Transcription Technology, Informed by Quranic Recitation, Traditional Arabic Linguistics, and Modern Phonetics
Brierley, C; Sawalha, M; Heselwood, B; Atwell, E · White Rose Research Online
In this paper, we present a detailed mapping from the graphemes of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) to symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for automated transcription of Arabic text. This mapping is distinctive in several ways. First, the corpus used in rule development is the full text of the Qur’?n rendered in fully pointed MSA. Second, we v…