From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sun Feb 21 11:39:20 2010 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NjHeB-0007Sd-39 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:39:19 -0800 Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:39:19 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: smart.fm and fooling text-to-speech Message-ID: <20100221193918.GD31805@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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <450935.18684.qm@web88004.mail.re2.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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/