From xod@sixgirls.org Fri Jan 19 10:54:14 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@erika.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_1_2); 19 Jan 2001 18:54:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 16992 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2001 18:45:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 19 Jan 2001 18:45:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO erika.sixgirls.org) (209.208.150.50) by mta3 with SMTP; 19 Jan 2001 19:46:20 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by erika.sixgirls.org (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0JIjDa23295 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:45:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:45:12 -0500 (EST) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] speech synthesizer In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20010119184643.010fadd0@pop.stud.ntnu.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > >>I tried to input a few Lojban words, but quickly discovered that the input > >>routine suppressed the apostrophe character. So now the Lojban vocabulary > >>list on this site includes words such as "mia" and "doo"! > > > >you need to go back & give the words with H's then... > > Why should I? A Lojban speech synthesizer that only recognized H's and not > apostrophes would need to have its input mangled (or preprocessed, some > would say). You say that like it's a problem. Since the y'ybu can be inserted using deduction, it would be trivial for software to get that right. ----- We do not like And if a cat those Rs and Ds, needed a hat? Who can't resist Free enterprise more subsidies. is there for that!