[mary-users] German Umlaut - utf-8 encoding engendring spoken "Paragraph"?

[Marc Schroeder]

Hi,

I just tried it out -- the umlauts in your example file render OK on my 
machine, and Paragraph sings are also pronounced as paragraph signs.

Please can you verify that the problem also occurs using the maryclient 
GUI interface? The problem you report could be caused by a custom client 
which does not treat UTF8-encoded text correctly... do you use a custom 
client? Which operating system? Which programming language for the 
client? Which MARY version?

Best regards,
Marc


Brigitte schrieb:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> the attached file comes from the emoSpeak demo. There it is proncounced 
> ok. When read by my local Java Mary TTS test implementation, every 
> umlaut is spoken as  German "Paragraph".
> 
> What am I to do in order to get rid of these spurious paragraphs?
> 
> Great thanks for all good ideas!
> 
> Brigitte
> 
> 
> 
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> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <maryxml xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://mary.dfki.de/2002/MaryXML" version="0.4" xml:lang="de">
> <prosody pitch="-8%" pitch-dynamics="-22%" range="3.04st" range-dynamics="-69%" preferred-accent-shape="rising" accent-slope="-21%" accent-prominence="-9%" preferred-boundary-type="high" rate="-13%" number-of-pauses="-17%" pause-duration="+5%" vowel-duration="-1%" nasal-duration="-1%" liquid-duration="-1%" plosive-duration="-10%" fricative-duration="-10%" volume="42">
> Ansprüche und Rechte des Käufers wegen eines Sachmangels des Grundstücks, des Gebäudes und der etwaig mitverkauften beweglichen Sachen sind ausgeschlossen. Dies gilt auch für alle Ansprüche auf Schadensersatz, es sei denn der Verkäufer handelt vorsätzlich. Der Verkäufer versichert, dass ihm versteckte Sachmängel nicht bekannt sind.
> </prosody>
> </maryxml>
> 
> 
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