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eSpeak NG is an open source speech synthesizer that supports more than hundred languages and accents.
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Esperanto: pronunciation of A #655

Open tspivey opened 4 years ago

tspivey commented 4 years ago

The pronunciation of the letter A is incorrect. It should be pronounced like the A in spa, not the A in cat.

Sources:

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_phonology
  2. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Esperanto/Appendix/Alphabet_and_pronunciation
hozosch commented 4 years ago

Hmmmm, maybe the latin "a" is ok? Can you try it and see what you think? If it's ok, I can open a pull request, or the developers can make that change.

hozosch commented 4 years ago

Sorry. Do you mean that the sound of the letter "a" is wrongly pronounced in the Esperanto language implementation of espeak, or is it the english pronunciation of the word "esperanto"?

valdisvi commented 4 years ago

I changed definition of a sound. Does this Esperanto.wav.zip sounds better?