[espeak-gaeilge] Re: New version of Irish eSpeak now available
- From: Jonathan Duddington <jonsd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: espeak-gaeilge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:09:48 +0100
On 27 Feb, RobbieS <robbiesin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 5. The last line of the song doesn't scan right. The phonemes are
> more or less grand, but there's something in the stresses or emphases
> on sylables. "Ag síleadh na deora tráthnóna nó ar maidin go trom".
The problem is probably because all the words (except "na") are
stressed.
This can be improved if some of the common "function words" are marked
as "unstressed" in eSpeak's ga_list file.
"na" is already unstressed, because its vowel [@] is marked as an
unstressed vowel.
In the eSpeak English voice, words such as:
the, this, any,
he, she, you,
in, of, at,
is, are, were, have, can,
and, or,
are unstressed. Some are marked as unstressed, except at the end of a
sentence or before a comma.
To mark a word as unstressed, add it to the ga_list file with the
attribute $u, or $u+ for unstressed except at the end of a sentence.
For example:
ar $u
go $u
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