Re: [Espeak-general] How eSpeak distinguish space between Chinese characters

[Jonathan D. <jo...@js...>]

On 25 Aug, <hgn...@ya...> wrote:

> I am writing phoneme rules for Cantonese. There is one
> space(" ") between words of European languages, which
> is annotated as "_" in phoneme in eSpeak (is it?).
> However, there are no spaces between Chinese
> characters. How can I distinguish space between them?

> More specifically, I want to make some constants
> soundless when they are after vowels or at the end of
> the character. For example,

eSpeak already treats each Chinese character as a separate word (which
is perhaps wrong in some cases?)

What you need is an option to prevent a consonant from merging into the
next word.  Try adding the following line to the end of the file:
  espeak-data/voices/zhy

words 1
or
words 5

This will insert a "break" phoneme between each word.