Creating pronunciation dictionary for ASR I am working on ASR(automatic speech recoginition) on Somali data as master thesis and now I am stuck with how to create a phonetics or pronunciation dictionary for it. I searched over net and could not find one. 

I'm not sure how to tackle this. Can someone guide me ?
I had posted a similar question in reddit as well and I got a response from Nikolay Shmyrev :

"If you want to convert latin script, you can write simple rules yourself. Something like this.  Or you can use epitran as is. "

Thanks to Nikolay Shmyrev who originally answered in reddit.