On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 11:29:15PM -0500, Craig wrote:
> >Many of these can't even appear without pauses, like "f-ui" or "ai-oi".
>
> la .naioin. would be a valid cmene, as would la fuin., so yes, they can
> appear without pauses.
All right, but these are not exactly common Lojban words.
In most text-to-speech programs, you're lucky if it can pronounce your
name at all. Here, if we treat these as series of diphones, it may sound
a bit labored when the computer says it but it will at least be correct
pronunciation. {fuin} would be (f-u) (u-i) (i-n). {naioin} would be
(n-a) (a-i) (i-o) (o-i) (i-n) - imagine the cmavo 'ai', 'io', and 'oi'
being flowed together. I think this is an acceptable tradeoff to make in
order to cut the number of speech samples required in about half.