From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jan 15 17:59:21 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:59:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JExYm-0001Xh-5b for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:59:20 -0800 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.186]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JExYh-0001XO-PN for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:59:19 -0800 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b22so54777rvf.46 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:59:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=NkG6vUpA9TZ1/4mfMcA9iufHrUGLpd9jSb57F6lfuq4=; b=o4ydE/IXFTZGZ3328o0OORWZ2DUO7DSWf3AS34Ycaw6f2kwL9Jy3vT1rA1cjl5GrqnXIVfwSkF3+uKMO30hJQ4iq2OWEG/Ta4pZNOKmGHP07q/PxqXSCuvcHaHXLO+SecYr2WXl1jbtVxEChib4DpkjGuksGMrf/YksDLbA5sKg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hv3SWGu350CdeFgSqIiw9eg0nT7jBzqS0XeEQ0BMaLRBwejY5fIY8E4iJLuL1Bdq0QXAzQO8r20roAfwhKDjDe7KH3vQFiDDprndBFuD52T78Qed4XtGd1k7G6TqcxbSIwlbuWLil8+vJfAdNG9/QAtVoy3TYF3Zj91Mhul1GBQ= Received: by 10.141.169.9 with SMTP id w9mr151110rvo.77.1200448748639; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:59:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.5.3 with HTTP; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:59:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:59:08 -0500 From: "Matt Arnold" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Text-to-speech In-Reply-To: <4f61d245b9jsd@clara.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4f61d245b9jsd@clara.co.uk> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14105 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Fantastic! Thanks for doing this! -Eppcott On Jan 15, 2008 8:31 PM, Jonathan Duddington wrote: > I've added a Lojban voice to the development version of eSpeak speech > synthesizer for Linux and Windows: > http://espeak.sourceforge.net/test/latest.html > > The spelling-to-pronunciation rules are simple and regular, so that > shouldn't be a problem, but I need advice on prosody. > > Lojban differs from other languages in its lack of punctuation. I > recognise ".i" as a sentence marker, so I can break up a paragraph into > sentences. But the sentences also need pauses and intonation within > them in order to sound natural. In English, I would recognise commas > and other punctuation as breaks. Also conjunction words such as "and". > > What lojban words should I look for to break a sentence into clauses > (or their equivalent)? > > This is not a problem of meaning or intelligibility. It just sounds > unnatural to speak a long sentence without using pause and intonation > to indicate its structure (and to draw breath). > > Another question is which words to emphasize. In English eSpeak has a > list of common function words which are unstressed ("is", "the", "my", > "of" etc). For Lojban, I could make all one-syllable words (or even > all cmavo) unstressed, but that's probably inappropriate. I note that > the pronunciation rules say that stressed syllables are optional for > cmavo. > > > If you want to experiment, you can install eSpeak and use the "jbo" > voice (that's the ISO 639-3 language code for Lojban). You can add > commas into Lojban text to hear what would be the effect of a > clause-break at that point. > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org > with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if > you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help. > > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.