Re: [Espeak-general] espeak-zh multiple tone 3s

[Silas S. B. <ss...@ca...>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:23:44AM +0000, Silas S. Brown wrote:
> ... but re-start it after every
> 2-syllable word (i.e. treat the end of a
> 2-syllable word as a phrase break for the
> purposes of tone selection)

In case anyone wants to play with an implementation
of this, I've done it in Gradint v0.9885 + Yali
http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/ssb22/gradint/
if you download the Windows version with Yali's
voice, you get a bundled eSpeak with the modified
zh dictionary, and it takes the output of espeak -X
(specifically the "Replace:", "Translate:" and
blank lines, although "Found:" is also used for
alphabetic letters), and it post-processes this for
tone-3 rules before playing it with Yali's syllables.

I'll update the dictionary of the Mac version's
bundled eSpeak when I'm next on a Mac.  (Linux
versions etc do not bundle eSpeak binaries - it
would be too big and complicated with all the
architectures, and I think most Linux users
will be able to install (or compile) it themselves. 
The only reason I bundle a command-line-only
binary on Windows is that some Gradint users do
not have admin rights and therefore can't do a
proper install of eSpeak, plus they want a
one-click setup. For Linux and RISC OS I'm
hoping that eSpeak won't make some
backward-incompatible change to -X in future!)

Silas