From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Feb 21 11:56:17 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:56:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NjHuZ-00066V-1P for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:56:15 -0800 Received: from mail-ew0-f223.google.com ([209.85.219.223]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NjHtI-0005hB-Kl for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:55:05 -0800 Received: by ewy23 with SMTP id 23so2122230ewy.4 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:54:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=yLyQvH+rVBVh4pkLLl0P2TNrrykQ29s4IrWi4AYDxNE=; b=wkYZtrGw4QwGbJ74suF0iDO2GVEpsG34S6PXRd1nSKqRM8szscIXP5XbZ34K6mvNgP zp66XKXGN4MsafFy/9OT/3GEzQHa//S+y07u+MIftkGoXnVWRg1y9QFftwWJAciBZC1p gMe8oz8y4NXMU4wEwPPF87HKKHFcvTH7Ucsx4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=q7p5bmgsv+yNIHRmTsvprVjdpNh0LVmjK/UzE+QgmSqwvkFqINJMZ028JVzSe5AveT D8y/GClpqK3iBKtPc5ntUdcxz9wJ3SaqUllGyY3LFRUr5dnBsh++LkLzaFOoFpOhxPQX 3w7r3CeYaRSc2Ncu5hYj7OQFBwUFiAYfaF2Z8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.89.200 with SMTP id c50mr242478wef.164.1266782089189; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:54:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100221193918.GD31805@digitalkingdom.org> References: <20100221092419.GB31805@digitalkingdom.org> <925d17561002210820x4d696c26v5ec7699e4bb6c57d@mail.gmail.com> <450935.18684.qm@web88004.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20100221193918.GD31805@digitalkingdom.org> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:54:48 -0700 Message-ID: <702226df1002211154o109aabfco8b4ad1bb4453d1ef@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban] Re: smart.fm and fooling text-to-speech From: "Jon \"Top Hat\" Jones" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 16962 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: eyeonus@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list So, for my gismu goal, there shouldn't be any noticable pronunciation problems if Smart.fm is told the words are Polish, without needing to alter the spelling? (None of the items for my goal will have .y'ybu, so that won't be a problem.) On 2/21/10, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 08:55:52AM -0800, A. PIEKARSKI wrote: >> >> >> > Is there a Slovenian or Croatian voice? Those are often said to >> > be very good for Esperanto, which has a phoneme inventory much >> > like that of Lojban. (Although looking at their Wikipedia >> > articles, it seems they lack [h] too.) > > No. > >> Donato was exploring the use of Polish and Czech voices.  The only >> real problem with Polish, as far as I remember, was the lack of a >> Polish equivalent of {'}. > > 0___o > > To my great surprise, last.fm *does* have those two. > > http://smart.fm/goals/208205/content now has examples; they both > sound pretty good, although the Polish "h" is apparently {x}. > "lehe" renders very well in Czech, though. > >> The following text is from the xorxes translation of >> Metamorphosis. Donato has some code for converting the lojban text >> into text the reader will recognize as Polish. > > How do I get that code? > > Does anyone have (or can make) a decent correspondance for Czech. > > -Robin, who had *no idea* {'} was so rare. > > -- > They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." > And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something > other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz > http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ > > > 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. > > -- mu'o mi'e .aionys. .i.a'o.e'e ko klama le bende pe denpa bu 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.