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Re: [gnuspeech-contact] IPA vs gnuspeech phonetic alphabet
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David Hill |
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Re: [gnuspeech-contact] IPA vs gnuspeech phonetic alphabet |
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Wed, 20 Jul 2016 11:58:36 -0700 |
Hi Paul,
There is a table of equivalences between IPA and gnuspeech orthography, along
with examples and commentary, in the "Gnuspeech_Monet_Manual" in appendices B1,
B2, and B3.
Do you simply want to substitute IPA symbols for gnuspeech symbols in the
parsed Monet strings ready for speaking (for the benefit of readers)?
Or do you want connected utterances written in IPA, rather than in standard
English orthography, to be translated for input to the speech conversion
process? This latter goal would involve significant work to sort out the
rhythmic structure (based on salient syllables -- information drawn from the
dictionary in the text-to-speech process); and access to appropriate timing
data for the successive phones. The latter could presumably be transferred from
the gnuspeech phonetic entities to an equivalent IPA symbol table, or the IPA
could be translated into normal gnuspeech script. But you could obviously
bypass dictionary look-up itself, since you'd already have the pronunciation.
Presumably the IPA would include primary and secondary stress markers to allow
the foot structure to be determined to allow generation of the rhythm and
intonation framework and production of the control characters. The actual Monet
input should be gnuspeech phonetic entities (so you wouldn't then need to
change anything following that).
If only isolated words, rather than connected utterances, were the goal, the
requirements would be less stringent, and a standard control character matrix,
with just the word embedded, should do the trick. Then you'd just have to
convert the IPA to gnuspeech symbols which would be trivial.
Time for some serious code reading?? :-)
An interesting project that should be doable fairly easily, IMO. I presume the
goal would be linguistic research.
All good wishes.
david
On Jul 19, 2016, at 19:50 09PM, Paul Tyson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone comment on the suitability, benefits, challenges, etc. of
> equipping gnuspeech with a parser for International Phonetic Alphabet
> input?
>
> Thanks and regards,
> --Paul
>
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