[espeak-gaeilge] Re: eSpeak Irish Version 2.1 now available
- From: "Damien O'Connor" <damienmoconnor@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <espeak-gaeilge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:47:59 +0100
Hi Ronan.
Before I get into the below. Do I need to install 2.1 or will my installed
version automatically update?
Thanks
Damien.
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[mailto:espeak-gaeilge-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ronan McGuirk
Sent: 26 August 2012 22:26
To: espeak-gaeilge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [espeak-gaeilge] eSpeak Irish Version 2.1 now available
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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