[mary-users] One stress marker is not enough?

[Thorsten Westermann]

Hello!

Let's take the word "UPS", pronounced "? u: - p e: - E s" in German.

As far as I was able to see, we can set only 1 stress marker in Mary, we use the ' symbol.

But that sounds not natural.

In my opinion, the word should be pronounced 

? u: (no stress)
p e: (weak stress)
E s (strong stress)

We could introduce new stress markers like e. g. ' for weak stress and '' for strong stress.

This way we would be able to produce more natural output.

Does anybody agree or disagree? 
I would be interested to find out how others think about it...

MfG,
Westermann

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