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thunderdrop / IBMTTSDictionaries

A large, community-driven pronunciation dictionary for the IBMTTS speech synthesizer in American English
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2021-04 - root #19

Closed ultrasound1372 closed 3 years ago

ultrasound1372 commented 3 years ago

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ultrasound1372 commented 3 years ago

Why is Xavier being pronounced like that? Isn't it more like `[.0Xg.1ze.0vy.0R]? @amirsol81

amirsol81 commented 3 years ago

@ultrasound1372 It's an attempt to mimic its Spanish counterpart, Javier. But you are right, I re-checked it with several sources and it's better to restore the pronunciation to its original. It will be done in the next commit.

amirsol81 commented 3 years ago

@ultrasound1372 @thunderdrop Any chance of revisiting the vexing "Louis" issue and reverting it to its original s-sounding pronunciation? I was just reading the following page and found the non-s pronunciation rather odd: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/13/986731926/henry-louis-gates-jr-on-the-black-church-and-his-own-bargain-with-jesus Even the hostess uses the s-sounding pronunciation. It is also preferred by many TTS engines including Siri's voices and MS OneCore voices. So should I go ahead and restore the original Eloquence pronunciation for "Louis", which is, some local preferences aside, the Americanized norm?

ultrasound1372 commented 3 years ago

I suppose, depending on what @thunderdrop thinks. Though I'd probably replace it with the same SPR for lewis, the way that it does it natively puts just a bit too much emphasis on the `[I] and just sounds off.

amirsol81 commented 3 years ago

@ultrasound1372 Not that it's late, but would you please release this month's update?