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[lojban] Re: Text-to-speech
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- Subject: [lojban] Re: Text-to-speech
- From: "Matt Arnold" <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:59:08 -0500
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Fantastic! Thanks for doing this!
-Eppcott
On Jan 15, 2008 8:31 PM, Jonathan Duddington <jsd@clara.co.uk> 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.
>
>
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