Abstract
The paper gives a comprehensive survey over the results, the concepts and the methods which were developed and used to create the Pronouncing Dictionary of Austrian German (ÖAWB/AGPD) and the Austrian Pronouncing Database ADABA. The paper presented the concepts and procedures developed and used for the creation of the Austrian pronouncing dictionary and the Austrian pronouncing database ADABA.
Further details about the work and ADABA can be found on the web site www.abdaba.at. The latest version of the ADABA-transcriber and the ADABA-database can be downloaded from this web site.
The ADABA-transcriber is freeware under a GNU licence. We would like to encourage the scientific community to use and to further develop the transcriber and the ADABA-database.