Re: [lojban] New file uploaded to lojban

[Rob Speer <rob@twcny.rr.com>]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:57:49AM -0000, lojban@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This email message is a notification to let you know that
> a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the lojban 
> group.
> 
>   File        : /ljbdiph.list 
>   Uploaded by : buzzwyrd <jcrossco@bellsouth.net> 
>   Description : Diphone List for FestVox 

I'm looking at this now...

1186 samples. Ow.

When I counted how many samples would hypothetically be needed, I got
339.

The difference is you're considering, say, "f-ui" a diphone, where I'd
consider "ui" to be the diphone "u-i".

Many of these can't even appear without pauses, like "f-ui" or "ai-oi".

You also left out all vowel-apostrophe diphones.

I actually considered even the common diphthongs to be diphones, so that
"f-ai" would not be a diphone but would come from "f-a" and "a-i". Is
this wrong? If so, then the total number of samples would be more than I
got, but certainly less than 1186.

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