[mary-users] Open Mary Phoneme Breakdown

[Marc Schroeder]

Megan,

best to ask questions on the mary-users mailing list since I hardly have 
time to answer questions. Make sure to subscribe at 
http://www.dfki.de/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/mary-users

The SAMPA inventory used for the US English voices in MARY TTS is here:
http://mary.opendfki.de/wiki/USEnglishSAMPA
and in machine-readable form here:

https://mary.opendfki.de/repos/branches/4.x-branch/lib/modules/en/us/lexicon/allophones.en_US.xml

Hope that helps,
Marc

On 03.08.11 14:26, Madey Jay wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> I'm working with Open Mary data for a research project at the University
> of Maryland, and I'm looking to do a more in-depth analysis at the
> sub-phoneme level of a word.  Open Mary outputs each phoneme as a space
> delimited composition of it's components.  What I'm looking to do is
> identify which of those components is associated with the vowel sound of
> that phoneme.
>
> For example, the word "certainly" gets broken down into three phonemes,
> each of which has a vowel component:
>
> Phoneme: s r=     Vowel Component: r=
> Phoneme: t @     Vowel Component:  @
> Phoneme: n l i     Vowel Component: i
>
> What I'm looking for is just some sort of look-up table that lists these
> components and whether they're associated with either a vowel or
> consonant sound.  I was able to find this link:
> http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/american.htm.  But the set appears
> to be incomplete based on the data I'm working with.
>
> Do you know if this information is available somewhere?  Or, if you are
> not the person to be asking about this, could you point me in the
> direction of someone who might know?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks so much,
> Megan Monroe
>
>
>
> University of Maryland
> Computer Science
> madey.j at gmail.com <mailto:madey.j at gmail.com>

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