From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Feb 21 11:59:29 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:59:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NjHxg-0007Ml-8p for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:59:28 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NjHxS-0007Cu-Np for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:59:14 -0800 Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:59:14 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: smart.fm and fooling text-to-speech Message-ID: <20100221195914.GF31805@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20100221092419.GB31805@digitalkingdom.org> <925d17561002210820x4d696c26v5ec7699e4bb6c57d@mail.gmail.com> <450935.18684.qm@web88004.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20100221193918.GD31805@digitalkingdom.org> <702226df1002211154o109aabfco8b4ad1bb4453d1ef@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <702226df1002211154o109aabfco8b4ad1bb4453d1ef@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-archive-position: 16963 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list No, you *will* need to alter the spelling. Fairly substantially, in some cases. But there is software to do the alteration for us; just need to get ahold of it. I'll post a text file with the altered versions then. And hopefully smart.fm will have mass upload soon. The idea is to put the Polish spelling of the Lojban sounds in the word area, and the actual Lojban spelling in the transliteration area. -Robin On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:54:48PM -0700, Jon Top Hat Jones wrote: > 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. > -- 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.