<s>
NETtalk	B-Algorithm
is	O
an	O
artificial	B-Architecture
neural	I-Architecture
network	I-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
intent	O
behind	O
NETtalk	B-Algorithm
was	O
to	O
construct	O
simplified	O
models	O
that	O
might	O
shed	O
light	O
on	O
the	O
complexity	O
of	O
learning	O
human	O
level	O
cognitive	O
tasks	O
,	O
and	O
their	O
implementation	O
as	O
a	O
connectionist	O
model	O
that	O
could	O
also	O
learn	O
to	O
perform	O
a	O
comparable	O
task	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NETtalk	B-Algorithm
is	O
a	O
program	O
that	O
learns	O
to	O
pronounce	O
written	O
English	O
text	O
by	O
being	O
shown	O
text	O
as	O
input	O
and	O
matching	O
phonetic	O
transcriptions	O
for	O
comparison	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
success	O
of	O
the	O
NETtalk	B-Algorithm
network	O
inspired	O
further	O
research	O
in	O
the	O
field	O
of	O
pronunciation	O
generation	O
and	O
speech	O
synthesis	O
and	O
demonstrated	O
the	O
potential	O
of	O
neural	B-Architecture
networks	I-Architecture
for	O
solving	O
complex	O
NLP	O
problems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NETtalk	B-Algorithm
was	O
created	O
to	O
explore	O
the	O
mechanisms	O
of	O
learning	O
to	O
correctly	O
pronounce	O
English	O
text	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NETtalk	B-Algorithm
does	O
not	O
specifically	O
model	O
the	O
image	O
processing	O
stages	O
and	O
letter	O
recognition	O
of	O
the	O
visual	O
cortex	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Rather	O
,	O
it	O
assumes	O
that	O
the	O
letters	O
have	O
been	O
pre-classified	O
and	O
recognized	O
,	O
and	O
these	O
letter	O
sequences	O
comprising	O
words	O
are	O
then	O
shown	O
to	O
the	O
neural	B-Architecture
network	I-Architecture
during	O
training	O
and	O
during	O
performance	O
testing	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
NETtalk	B-Algorithm
's	O
task	O
to	O
learn	O
proper	O
associations	O
between	O
the	O
correct	O
pronunciation	O
with	O
a	O
given	O
sequence	O
of	O
letters	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
context	O
in	O
which	O
the	O
letters	O
appear	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
other	O
words	O
,	O
NETtalk	B-Algorithm
learns	O
to	O
use	O
the	O
letters	O
around	O
the	O
currently	O
pronounced	O
phoneme	B-Language
that	O
provide	O
cues	O
as	O
to	O
its	O
intended	O
phonemic	O
mapping	O
.	O
</s>
