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itinerarium / phoneme-synthesis

A browser-based tool to convert International Phonetic Alpha (IPA) phonetic notation to speech using the meSpeak.js package
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Pronounces "æ" as "a" #17

Open WCarter73 opened 5 years ago

WCarter73 commented 5 years ago

That's all. Æ is pronounced a.

ssb22 commented 4 years ago

When I wrote the table for Lexconvert (which is what this project used as its starting point), I didn't understand the difference between "æ" and "a", so I simply mapped both of them to eSpeak's "a", which is the vowel I use when I say the word "hat". It's possible that the American version of English (which is not what I speak) makes more of a distinction between these vowels. In that case I suspect you might want to use an American speech synthesiser too (the eSpeak voice is British; it does have an American-voice option but I don't know how well it does all the American phonemes).