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Re: [lojban] smart.fm and fooling text-to-speech



On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 6:24 AM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> This isn't especially relevant while the automated upload isn't
> there, but by using either the Spanish voice or the Portuguese voice
> (or maybe even Italian), you can end up with a really good
> approximation of Lojban on smart.fm.
>
> It seems you can get "good enough" for anything that doesn't contain
> both ' and j or x (because none of the voices for smart.fm have
> both).

The Spanish voice should also present problems with b/v, s/z, c/j and y.
The Portuguese voice might do better with the consonants, but worse
with the vowels.

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.)

mu'o mi'e xorxes