[mary-users] Pronunciation Feedback Helpful?

[Marc Schroeder]

Agron, Stephen,

you guys are really kind, thanks for offering to help.

Adding pronounciation corrections *should* be easy, as it is a task that 
will always be necessary.

For German, it is easy already: simply add a line to
	MARY TTS/lib/modules/de/lexicon/userdict.txt
-- the existing entries should explain the format, I guess.

For English and all other languages that will hopefully be supported in 
the future, there will be a similar mechanism from MARY 4.0 onwards. We 
are currently re-organising everything behind the scenes to make this 
and other things straightforward.

If you want to help collect problems at the moment, that is already very 
welcome. If you could transcribe directly using the SAMPA alphabet that 
we use, it would mean we can easily use your contribution; otherwise it 
depends on somebody finding the time to translate the IPA or 
Merriam-Webster into SAMPA.

http://mary.opendfki.de/wiki/USEnglishSAMPA

For example, for "stronger" you could send us:

stronger \ 'strON-gr=

Actually, the easiest way to collect such contributions will be a page 
on the wiki, so I have created one:

http://mary.opendfki.de/wiki/PronunciationCorrections


Again, many thanks for the willingness to help make MARY better! :-)

Best regards,
Marc


Agron Von Canada schrieb:
> Or we could make a translation table from phonemic script to MBROLA for 
> example:
> 
> phonemic script:   
> \ˈstrȯŋ-gər
> 
> 
> MBROLA:
> ; voice name=us1
> s 131 (0,209)
> t 64
> r 64
> O 102 (50,200)
> N 50
> g 116 (50,200)
> r 118 (100,157)
> _ 400
> #
> 
> 
> where i think symbol to symbol mapping could be done. I think!
> 
> //Agron
> 
> 
> 
> --- On *Mon, 8/4/08, Stephen Mack /<sbmack7 at comcast.net>/* wrote:
> 
>     From: Stephen Mack <sbmack7 at comcast.net>
>     Subject: Re: [mary-users] Pronunciation Feedback Helpful?
>     To: mary-users at dfki.de
>     Date: Monday, August 4, 2008, 4:26 PM
> 
>     Hey, good point!   I never thought of that.
> 
>      
> 
>     Good idea would be to plug the mispronounced word into
>     Merriam-Webster online:
> 
>      
> 
>     http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary.htm
> 
>      
> 
>     And then forward the link.  That way the linguistic person will have
>     the phonetic spelling plus a pronounciation.  For example Mary
>     mispronounces “stronger”  The link provides this:
> 
>      
> 
>     http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stronger
> 
>      
> 
>     SteveM
> 
>      
> 
>     *From:* Agron Von Canada [mailto:agron_ca at yahoo.ca]
>     *Sent:* Monday, August 04, 2008 6:11 PM
>     *To:* 'Marc Schroeder'; Stephen Mack
>     *Cc:* mary-users at dfki.de
>     *Subject:* Re: [mary-users] Pronunciation Feedback Helpful?
> 
>      
> 
>     Is IPA standard of phonemic script OK for the feedback?
> 
> 
>     --- On *Mon, 8/4/08, Stephen Mack /<sbmack7 at comcast.net>/* wrote:
> 
>     From: Stephen Mack <sbmack7 at comcast.net>
>     Subject: [mary-users] Pronunciation Feedback Helpful?
>     To: "'Marc Schroeder'" <schroed at dfki.de>
>     Cc: mary-users at dfki.de
>     Date: Monday, August 4, 2008, 5:31 AM
> 
>     Marc,
> 
>       
> 
>     Would it be helpful for you for users to submit words that Mary is
> 
>     mispronouncing so that the pronunciation can be corrected?
> 
>       
> 
>     Steve Mack
> 
>       
> 
>       
> 
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