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thunderdrop / IBMTTSDictionaries

A large, community-driven pronunciation dictionary for the IBMTTS speech synthesizer in American English
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2024-09 - Roots #54

Closed ultrasound1372 closed 3 weeks ago

ultrasound1372 commented 3 months ago

See readme for contributing guidelines.

ultrasound1372 commented 1 month ago

Can we bring back the pronunciation of Pantheon? According to Cambridge dictionary while the UK pronunciation matches the current one ([.1pAn.0Ti.0Xn]), the US pronunciation, which is the one we should be using, is [.1pAn.0Ti.0an], and possibly even [.1pAn.0Ti.2an]? There is a very slight difference between those two, secondary stress on the final syllable, I'd probably need someone who can read IPA better to confirm whether the notation indicates that in that case. @amirsol81 Do any other dictionaries disagree which caused you to remove it?

amirsol81 commented 1 month ago

@ultrasound1372 "Pantheon" is really interesting. Both Dictionary.com and Merriam-Webster list the removed pronunciation as their primary pronunciation, and list Eloquence's pronunciation second. Dictionary.com indicates that Eloquence ENU's pronunciation is especially British. However, having seen Windows OneCore voice's pronunciation which is like that of Eloquence, I came to the conclusion that the Eloquence pronunciation, supported by dictionaries, maybe more popular or accepted than I thought. That's why I removed it. But please free to re-add it. I also like the more popular .2an pronunciation.

amirsol81 commented 1 month ago

@ultrasound1372 I just restored "pantheon."

amirsol81 commented 1 month ago

@ultrasound1372 Please make the new monthly release available.