When it sees “Coronavirus” is says it as “corona” followed by “virus” (otherwise it messes up the middle merging the “avir” part as if it weren’t distinct words. This results in it being said letter by letter (only if it’s all in capitals), so “R A C” (not “rack”) Example of abbreviation where you spell it out phoneticallyīoulevard Example of word based on other words In my case I’ve grouped them by a few basic types (abbreviations, names of people / places, general words) but that’s not necessary. – the extras file - eg en_extras - this is the one you’ll usually want to add to, it’s intended for “user” specific words, ie domain specific words or those you want to overrideīecause of the order it looks at the files, it will usually end up following the extras file, so you can mostly just edit this.įor further details on how it works you can look at the espeak-ng docs, but some examples are below. – the list of words (mainly ones which are exceptions) - eg en_dict - this will be interesting to look in for inspiration but it’s usually not necessary to change – The rules file - eg en_rules which sets the general pronunciation, for now you can ignore it
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ARPABET TO IPA LIBRARY DOWNLOAD
Find (if it’s already present) or download the source for espeak-ng.There’s a lot you can pick up from the excellent guide that Josh Meyer put together here: (which I believe then got largely used as direct inspiration for some of the espeak-ng documentation) Summary of steps: When I talk of compiling the dictionary it’s not the same as compiling the application - it’s just processing the dictionary( ies) into a format it can use internally.
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It may be that a similar approach works with it, as they seem to share many command line options (due to their common heritage) My approach is with espeak-ng - I’m afraid I haven’t used espeak for a while and had abandoned it for espeak-ng by the time I started getting more concerned about the pronunciation.
ARPABET TO IPA LIBRARY PATCH
I’ve got a fairly simple patch to do this (it looks for phonetic letters that aren’t in the regular alphabet and then assumes that indicates the input is phonetic and doesn’t bother sending it to be converted by phonemizer). The other thing that’s useful when comparing small adjustments like this is the ability to make server.py accept phonetic input as well. I suppose you could possibly do it with an additional dictionary but I suspect you won’t get the fine control that selecting the desired phonetic inputs gives you. I can post more detailed instructions tomorrow morning.
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