[espeak-gaeilge] Re: New version of Irish eSpeak now available
- From: RobbieS <robbiesin@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: espeak-gaeilge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:29:21 +0000
Hi all,
I've left a folder in Dropbox/eSpeak/text sources/ called Liricí. It
contains the lyrics of a good few Irish songs, including two similar if not
identical vwersions of *Buachaill ón Éirne). *
Hopefully they'll be useful for testing eSpeak, but everyone feel free to
enjoy and share in any way ye like.
Regards,
Robbie
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Jonathan Duddington <jonsd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 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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