Re: [Espeak-general] Improvment for Cantonese

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

On 26 Aug, <hgn...@ya...> wrote:


> I have no idea about the stress of Chinese words. You
> may confuse with the words in Chinese. You can take
> Chinese character as English word while Chinese word
> as English phrase. One Chinese character is enough to
> has its meaning. Some Chinese characters have more
> than one syllable. When they appear in different
> "words" they will have different syllable. I added a
> default syllable for every character. Syllables for
> "words" will be added if they contain non-default
> syllable characters.

> Can you understand what I have said?

No.

> By the way, I want to compile eSpeak with Cantonese in
> Windows myself, which is convenient to install for
> user who need it. I tried to compile with MINGW. I set
> "#define PLATFORM_WINDOWS" in speech.h and removed
> "-lportaudio -lpthread" in Makefile. It still has
> problem.

Use the "speech.h" file from the "windows_cmd" directory in the eSpeak
download.

I don't know what is "MINGW".  But there is a project file "espeak.dsp"
(the equivalent of a makefile) which I use with Microsoft Visual C++.

> "unrecognized option `-fvisibility=hidden'" Error
> occurs.

Remove this option from the makefile.