From olivera@macs.biu.ac.il Thu Feb 15 09:21:47 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: olivera@macs.biu.ac.il X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_3); 15 Feb 2001 17:21:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 53791 invoked from network); 15 Feb 2001 17:21:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 15 Feb 2001 17:21:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sunbeam.cs.biu.ac.il) (132.70.1.24) by mta1 with SMTP; 15 Feb 2001 17:21:17 -0000 Received: from sunshine (olivera@sunshine [132.70.1.6]) by sunbeam.cs.biu.ac.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA07699 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 19:21:14 +0200 (IST) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 19:21:12 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: olivera@sunshine To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] speech synthesizer In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20010215162902.01094cd0@pop.stud.ntnu.no> Message-ID: X-Organization: Math & CS department MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Avital Oliver On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > >Please have a look at the > >OpenSource SpeechSynthesizer 1.1. web page: > > http://hyperdrive.media.mit.edu/cgi-bin/stefanm/synth > >They are building a collection of sounds for a number of languages. > >The list of languages includes Lojban! > > > >Anyone cares to help them? > > I was bored yesterday, so I recorded about 40 words.I added most of them > today, except "je'e", "na'e", "li'u", and "u'i", because they ended up as > "je", "na", "li", and "u" in the sample directory, respectively.The > maintainer has been notified. > Isn't this somewhat, well, not the way to do it, regarding Lojban's phonology/morphology? I mean, it would be much easier just to program simple syllable-making functions, and let the program do the (amazing difficult) task of splitting the words into syllables. I mean, you can't teach the program all lujvo, or all fu'ivla, or even all cmavo combinations.