A Brief Review of Phonetic Errors in Punjabi Typed Text and Bangla

Meenu Bhagat

Phonetic analysis is a branch of natural language processing (NLP) which deals with how the sounds are produced when we talk and how words are related to sounds. Phonetic analysis is a challenging task in Natural Language Processing as it involves making computer to understand how sounds are produced and analyze it. In the past few decades the researchers has addressed this problem in a broader perspective focusing on different Regional languages that are spoken across the world. The major application of Phonetics is to recognize the language, process it for lexical, syntactic, semantic knowledge about the language and the challenges of speech recognition and speech synthesis. This paper focuses on the contribution of different type of Phonetic errors in Non-word Error Distribution of Punjabi Typed Text. This paper is based on the analysis done on 20000 misspelled words generated by typists. This paper also give a brief introduction of phonetic errors in Bangla language.