The words "authentique", "authentiquement" and "authenticité" are not properly read in French

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Steps to reproduce

spd-say -l fr authentique spd-say -l fr authenticité spd-say -l fr authentiquement

Obtained behavior

In the words "authentique", "authenticité" and "authentiquement", the "th" is read as an English "th" ([θ] in the International phonetic alphabet).

Expected behavior

In the words "authentique", "authenticité" and "authentiquement", "th" should be read as a "t" ([t] in the International phonetic alphabet).

Behavior information

Please follow the next step, to provide us with precious information about how things went wrong on your machine:

• Set LogLevel to 5 in your /etc/speech-dispacher/speechd.conf
• Restart your computer to make sure it gets taken into account
• Reproduce the issue
• Make a copy of the speech-dispacher.log file, it is usually found in [speech-dispatcher.log](https://github.com/brailcom/speechd/files/11575229/speech-dispatcher.log). Also make a copy ofyourspeechmodule.log(e.g.espeak-ng.log`).
• Set LogLevel back to 3 in your /etc/speech-dispacher/speechd.conf
• Attach the speech-dispatcher.log and yourspeechmodule.log file to your bug report.
• Also attach your speechd.conf file and yourspeechdmodule.conf file.

Distribution

updated Fedora workstation 38

Version of Speech-dispatcher

0.11.4

espeak-ng.log espeak-ng-mbrola.log speech-dispatcher.log

[sthibaul]

The exact pronunciation is not under the control of speech-dispatcher, you need to report it to the actual synthesis, here https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/ . Notably we get the same with

espeak-ng -v fr authentique
espeak-ng -v fr authenticité
espeak-ng -v fr authentiquement