[Espeak-general] eSpeak problem with English @U phoneme combination

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

Hi Jonathan, it seems eSpeak has a problem with words containing
the phoneme sequence @U, for example "immunoglobulin" according
to the OED 2nd edition is [[,Imju:n@Ugl'0bjUlIn]]
but when I say  speak -x "[[,Imju:n@Ugl'0bjUlIn]]" I get this:
 ,Imju:n@r-Ugl'0bjUlIn

Somehow a "r-" crept in there between the @ and the U.
It's in the audio as well and it sounds like a glitch.

I tried compiling eSpeak 1.40.23 but the problem is still there.
Any ideas what's happening?

Thanks.

Silas


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