[mary-users] How to define the pronounce of a syllable

[Cahit Oncel]

Hi
i am a native turkish speaker and very new to marytts and background
knowledge of text to speech systems. i want to make pronounce of turkish
words more accurate, bu i don't know how to? Let me to give an example: if
the syllable 'Ca' is the first syllable of a word and the second syllable of
this word has i, or e, or ü as a vowel 'a' in the 'Ca' should be pronounced
a bit longer like 'Cağ' ('ğ' in turkish has no sound. it extends the
preceding vowel); if the second syllable has ı, o, u as a vowel then 'a'
should be pronounce a bit shorter, like now with marytts.
But doubtless the are exceptions. So, i need to define rules and singular
words but i can't find any document.

Thanks for your help.
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