Re: [Espeak-general] European Portuguese

[Kimus L. <kim...@gm...>]

On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 14:06 +0100, Jonathan Duddington wrote:

> On 24 Jun, Kimus Linuxus <kim...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> > Let's say that my kid doesn't understand a word of the espeak is
> > saying. That's how much wrong it is :-D
> 
> I didn't know it was as bad as that :-)
> I have heard a couple of Portuguese people say that it's OK.


I can understand. But I don't think is perfect. My kid has 3 years
old :-D. But a phrase like "go to bed" (in portuguese) it's very hard to
understand by her.

I also find that there is some kind of 'robotic' effects (like the one
on hte Radiohead album :-D) even in the english language. Does this
'effect' is normal or the audio hardware makes a difference?


> 
> > If I find, let's say, a bad spelling word or phoneme, how can I
> > corrected? What do I need to try to improve the spelling? What are
> > the first steps you recommend?
> 
> The spelling-to-phoneme rules are in the files dictsource/pt_rules and
> dictsource/pt_list.  The information for the format of these files is
> in http://espeak.sourceforge.net/dictionary.html
> 
> These portuguese files, pt_rules and pt_list try to give the rules for
> both European and Brazilian Portuguese (as conditional rules).  Perhaps
> that was a mistake, because it makes them more complicated.
> 
> If these files are not installed with your Linux distribution, you can
> get them by downloading eSpeak from http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
> 
> If you make changes to pt_rules and pt_list, then re-compile the data
> by doing the command:
>   espeak --compile=pt
> 
> from inside the dictsource directory.
>  


I think the rules are almost identical. The pronunciation and the
phrases construction is where lies the difference. 



> 
> But first, can you give me a few examples of wrong pronunciation for
> individual words?  Can you record the words with the correct
> pronunciation (and include their spelling in a text file), so that I
> can hear what is wrong?  Also make a WAV file of the wrong
> pronunciation (either by the command  espeak -v pt -w out.wav "some
> words", or by speaking the wrong pronunciation yourself).
> 


I cant try to do that.