[espeak-gaeilge] eSpeak Irish Version 2.1 now available
- From: Ronan McGuirk <ronan.p.mcguirk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: espeak-gaeilge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 22:26:06 +0100
Hi all,
I have added version 2.1 to the DropBox environment.
Many thanks to those of you who gave me feedbak on pronunciation. I
have tried to incorporate your suggestions.
I suggest we meet up on Skype at some stage to discuss pronunciation
issues in more detail.
In the meantime can I ask you to look at one issue in particular.
When I was preparing Version 2, I initially put in simple rules for
slender consonants. At first I simply had a rule that if a consonant
is preceded by or followed by a slender vowel (e, i, é, í) then the
consonant should be slender.
As most of you will know, this was too simplistic.
The words mise and minic for example, I believe have a broad m,
whereas words beginning mionn or meán have a slender m. I
incorporated this into version 2. However, there are a lot of other
exceptions to the simple slender rule.
I have tried to apply some of these to Version 2.1.
For example it seems that the following words have aslender l:
liom, leat, libh. Whereas I think leis and léi have a broad l.
I think d and s seem to be nearly always slender if surrounded by
slender vowels, but most other consonants appear to have exceptions.
Can you please review version 2.1 with a view to identifying where it
is mispronouncing consonants as slender rather than broad or vice
versa, when slender vowels surround the consonants. Note that the
current rules set all consonants to broad if they are surrounded by
broad vowels, which I believe is correct.
If anyone has a good reference for rules for slender consonants, can
you please let me know.
As always, please let me know of any other mispronunciations or feedback.
le meas
Ronan
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