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Use espeak phone X-SAMPA to language-specific SAMPA foldings. #105

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hadware opened this issue Jan 3, 2022 · 1 comment
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Use espeak phone X-SAMPA to language-specific SAMPA foldings. #105

hadware opened this issue Jan 3, 2022 · 1 comment
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hadware commented Jan 3, 2022

Currently, to get the language-specific SAMPA form of each phoneme, a working (and espeak-friendly) installation of mbrola is required.
This is problematic for several reasons:

  • it requires an additional system-wide package install on linux platform (even though mbrola is available on most distributions)
  • it requires the installation of a corresponding mbrola voice, which is either unpractical and/or quite heavy. Moreover, the entirety of the voice's speech data isn't actually used by espeak for the phonemization.
  • the OSX/windows support for mbrola is very bad.

The foldings are all here: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/tree/master/phsource/mbrola

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