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

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

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.

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