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#2 French-English dictionary truncates "-ment" pronun

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2005-07-21
2003-11-30
No

Look at e.g. abaissement, heureusement; the
pronunciation given ends with schwa-m but should end
with m followed by a nasalized alpha.

I'm not a native French speaker, so this might be some
odd regional accent, but it's inconsistent with all my
dictionaries.

Discussion

  • Michael Bunk

    Michael Bunk - 2005-06-17

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    We could just add those characters, but for matters of
    comprehensiveness, one should check with the MBROLA project
    http://www.tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/ from where the
    FreeDict pronunciation data was imported.

     
  • Rafal Mantiuk

    Rafal Mantiuk - 2005-07-19

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    One more comment from FreeDict release notes:

    This bug also applies to fra-deu and fra-nld. It seems that
    MBRODICT needs
    part of speech information to generate the pronunciation
    more correctly (I
    tried this). Fixing this bug involves much work, because
    that POS
    information is presently not available in the French
    dictionaries. Also,
    even though notes exist stating that the pronunciations
    were imported from
    MBRODICT, no source code is available that actually does
    the export from
    there.

     
  • Rafal Mantiuk

    Rafal Mantiuk - 2005-07-19
    • summary: French-English dictionary truncates "-ment" pronunciation --> French-English dictionary truncates "-ment" pronun
    • status: open --> closed-wont-fix
     
  • Rafal Mantiuk

    Rafal Mantiuk - 2005-07-21
    • status: closed-wont-fix --> open-later
     

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