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A browser-based tool to convert International Phonetic Alpha (IPA) phonetic notation to speech using the meSpeak.js package
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Certain sounds cause silent output #5

Open Nicholas-Baron opened 6 years ago

Nicholas-Baron commented 6 years ago

Tried to have it pronounce "wszystko" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wszystko

Input copied from website: /ˈfʂɨ.stkɔ/

It can say the first sound, but not any other.

savetier commented 5 days ago

Try ˈfʃɨstkɔ

Nicholas-Baron commented 5 days ago

It works, but from my hobbyist understanding of phonetics, /ʂ/ is not the same as /ʃ/. It may be close enough, but asking the user to change one sound into another feels "wrong".

savetier commented 5 days ago

You are right but the phoneme synthesis can't handle a lot of sounds, unfortunately.

Nicholas-Baron commented 4 days ago

Maybe detecting a sound that causes the output to be silent and suggesting "close enough" substitutions would alleviate the problem.