[Espeak-general] eSpeak Chinese etc

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

Hi Jonathan, most people I've met say eSpeak Chinese has a bad accent,
but my attempt to sequence Yali's recorded syllables, although better,
still isn't very good because I can't get all the tone sandhi right with
recorded syllables (for example I do not have recordings of half-tone-4,
full-tone-3, or the higher neutral tone that occurs after tone 3 ..
I've tried to "cheat" electronically for the latter but I can't do the
others because the non-tone1 recordings are not calibrated well enough).
I guess to be perfect we'd have to use eSpeak but improve its Chinese
consonants.  You mentioned before that you were working on some way to
improve eSpeak's handling of foreign-language sounds; did this ever
happen?  Is there any way to take our existing recordings of Yali's
Chinese syllables (and Hae-Sung's Korean syllables) and isolate some of
the consonants for use in eSpeak?

Thanks.

Silas

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Silas S Brown http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/ssb22