Re: [Espeak-general] How to add pause between vowels of two words effectively?

[ChrisLeo <ll...@gm...>]

You can set the pause by adding this line in lv voice file for Latvian 
language:

words <integer value> <integer value>

The first parameter  puts a pause between all words, the value can be 0 
to 4.

The second parameter adds a short pause if a word ends with a vowel and
the next words starts with a vowel.  Values may be:
0  no pause.
1  no pause, but the two vowels are kept separate.
2  short pause.

E.G:
words 0 1
put a short pause between two words where the first word end with a 
vowel and the next start with a vowel.
This should be set by espeak-ng program.








Chris.

Valdis Vītoliņš, 19/01/2016 18:37:
> I'm struggling with problem that espeak-ng merges vowels of different
> words together, if previous word finishes with vowel and current words
> starts with it (or current word finishes and and next word starts with
> vowel, what is just different prospective).
>
> Approach I know is to add additional rules in .._rules file, but it is
> very inefficient because then I have to add clause for almost each
> pronunciation decision, which is huge number of additional rules.
>
> Therefore I think more efficient would be rule for phoneme, because
> pronunciation decision is done at that time and then I could add
> additional clause just for each vowel. Something like:
>
> IF thisPh(isWordEnd) AND nextPh(isPause) AND next2Ph(isVowel)
> ...
> ENDIF
>
> or
>
> IF nextPh(isPause) AND next2Ph(isVowel)
> ...
> ENDIF
>
> (or looking back with prevPh..(..), if it is better)
>
> But I can't find out what construction I could use to add pause
> before/after current vowel. Is ChangePhoneme(...) with specially
> designed phoneme with just silent frame before/after the best choice?
>
> Or maybe I have garbled some default rules? (I work with Latvian
> language.)
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Valdis
>
>
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