[espeak-gaeilge] Re: Irish now in latest eSpeak release
- From: Ronan Mcguirk <ronan.p.mcguirk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "espeak-gaeilge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <espeak-gaeilge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 22:39:05 +0000
Hi Jonathan it would be great to put in the rule for the letters JKQWVXYZ
indicating am english word. we will need to think about other letter
combinations that might indicate English words many thanks Ronu
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On 10 Mar 2013, at 17:53, Jonathan Duddington <jonsd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10 Mar, Ronan McGuirk <ronan.p.mcguirk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 2. Certain letters such as W or Y in a word now cause eSpeak to
>> translate it as English rather than Irish. This means for instance
>> that certain english words such as a name like William Quinn appearing
>> in Irish text is correctly pronounced as though in English.
>
> Actually that feature is not yet in, although "William Quinn"
> translates OK using the Irish rules.
>
> I'll add rules which say that any word which contains a letter
> J K Q V W X Y Z is spoken as English.
>
> This can also be done for any combination of letters. For example: "if
> a word ends in the letters 'ton'".
>
>
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