Re: [Espeak-general] Make stress on every number in tone languages.

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

On 10 Nov, <hgn...@ya...> wrote:

> I need to make stress on every number. In fact, I think every
> character and number should has its own stress in  a tone language.
> Or it pronounce strange sound.

In the current development version of eSpeak, unstressed and stressed
syllables have the same strength and length.

The problem is that a number such as "17" is considered as a single
word, and the final syllable of a word is made longer.

You fix (or reduce) the problem by adding a "word boundary" symbol ||
in zhy_list after each number:

_0   ling4||
_1   jat1||
_2   ji6||

For Mandarin, Tone 5 is weaker (like an unstressed syllable), but this
is recognised by language-specific program code.