This poster[1] might be interesting. English spelling-pronunciation mapping is really complex compared to Italian for example. I wonder if Italian would be a be

This poster[1] might be interesting. English spelling-pronunciation mapping is really complex compared to Italian for example. I wonder if Italian would be a better language for speech recognition. Most of speech recognition research is targeted at English, but with similar effort, maybe Italian would enable lower error rates. [1]: http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/~chrisw/ML3/84.pdf http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/~chrisw/ML3/84.pdf