[mary-users] How to change pronunciation

[Stephen Mack]

I think the pronunciations are driven by a complex rules set.  Especially
for English with it's terribly inconsistent pronunciation.
 
Mary still makes a lot of mistakes that baffle me.  For example, for the
word "stronger", she pronounces the g as "j".  I haven't tried her with
other "onger" words.  But I imagine with rules consistency, she'll mistake
those words too.
 
 Even if there were a way to modify pronunciation.  (I suppose there has to
be, or else how would they have gotten Mary to speak in the first place?)
But I would guess that correcting individual errors like "stronger" would be
quite a challenge.  And you have to be a linguist to understand the
pronunciation classification system.
 
SteveM
 
 
From: mary-users-bounces at dfki.de [mailto:mary-users-bounces at dfki.de] On
Behalf Of Alan Pepelko
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 7:50 AM
To: Mary-users at dfki.de
Subject: [mary-users] How to change pronunciation
 
Hi!

Is it possible to change or replace the pronunciation of words in MARY TTS,
or in voices that comes with it? I searched all the directories of the MARY
install, but I didn't find any file that looked like a dictionary or
pronunciation definition. Is it possbile to do it some other way that I
tried?

Thanks for help.

-- 
Alan Pepelko
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