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The Cainteoir Text-to-Speech core engine
http://reecedunn.co.uk/cainteoir/
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Support script (Cyrillic, Greek, etc) spelling and transliteration #56

Open rhdunn opened 10 years ago

rhdunn commented 10 years ago

For scripts like Cyrillic and Greek, there are two processing modes:

  1. spelling -- each character is pronounced as the character name (e.g. in mathematics, Greek characters are spelled out);
  2. transliteration -- sequences of script characters are transliterated according to transliteration rules

As a general rule, if the native/dictionary script is Latin:

  1. if there is a single non-Latin character, then that character is spelled.
  2. spelling of single Latin characters is context/language dependent (e.g. 'y' in Spanish).
  3. sequences on non-Latin characters (e.g. Russian/Bosnian/Serbian names) are transliterated.

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