How do I produce phonic letter sounds with espeak?
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From: DenverD on 21 Nov 2009 01:42 Mark Hobley wrote: > Right so maybe we need different some additional digraphs and trigraphs > for variant phonic sounds. <snip> > Ok, so maybe locale needs to be effective here. We really need some more > voices, and possibly additional language options here. now, you and i are on the same page and i just wanna observe: if eSpeak is not complex/sophisticated/complete enough to include all the various phonic sounds you need in the educational software you are developing, then as far as i can see the potential answer(s) to your original question ("How do I get eSpeak to produce the phonic sounds of letters") is to 1.) not possible ,find a more suitable application, or 2.) accept the limits of eSpeak as it can't do what you wish (make the sound of e in see and sled be different if you pull the e out to have its sound heard, it will always be ee), or 3.) it is open source, so you could maybe include new programming and sounds to increase its capability.. -- DenverD (Linux Counter 282315) via Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (20090817), KDE 3.5.7 "release 72-11", openSUSE Linux 10.3, 2.6.22.19-0.4-default #1 SMP i686 athlon
From: Jeremy Nicoll - news posts on 21 Nov 2009 04:24 DenverD <spam.trap(a)SOMEwhere.dk> wrote: > Mark Hobley wrote: > > DenverD <spam.trap(a)somewhere.dk> wrote: > >> how else could you program espeak to know which discreet sound to pick > >> (instead of repeating the name, each time)? > > > > I would use a, b, c, d, e as normal phonics and ay bee see dee ee as the > > letter names. > > but, the "normal phonics" include several different sounds for each of > those letters...only the sound of their name remains constant.. Since eSpeak supports use in different languages there must be ways of influencing the sounds it produces. A quick google shows me that it has voice and language and phoneme and pronounciation files. Has the original poster experimented with all of those? Failing that, why not ask the author? -- Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own. Email sent to my from-address will be deleted. Instead, please reply to newsreplynnn(a)wingsandbeaks.org.uk replacing "nnn" by "284".
From: Mark Hobley on 22 Nov 2009 06:08 Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap004(a)wingsandbeaks.org.uk> wrote: > Failing that, why not ask the author? Right ... I have made some progress with this: espeak "[[a]],[[b@]],[[k@]],[[d@]],[[e@]],[[f@]],[[g@]],[[h@]],[[i]],[[k@]], [[l@]],[[m@]],[[n@]],[[o@]],[[p@]],[[qw@]],[[r@]],[[s@]],[[t@]],[[v@]],[[w@]], [[ks]],[[j@]],[[z@]]" I am missing j for jug and u for umbrella. Also the o for octopus is really horrible (it makes a twang at the end). Mark. -- Mark Hobley Linux User: #370818 http://markhobley.yi.org/
From: Mark Hobley on 22 Nov 2009 10:08
Mark Hobley <markhobley(a)hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote: > I am missing j for jug espeak "[[dZ@]]" > u for umbrella espeak "[[V]]" > Also the o for octopus is really horrible (it makes a twang at the end). Using a zero fixes this: espeak "[[0]]" Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Hobley Linux User: #370818 http://markhobley.yi.org/ |