d...@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) writes: > Ville-Pertti Keinonen <w...@iki.fi> writes: > > I certainly don't expect any of the available voices to be able to > > pronounce Finnish names correctly, even with phonetic specifications.
> If the software were *designed* to speak Finnish, I'd expect it to > cope with Finnish much better than it currently does with English, > seeing as you guys have nearly phonetic spelling. Festival is basically language-independent, each voice is associated with a specific language, so with a Finnish voice it should be able to pronounce Finnish reasonably. Since the English voices have dictionaries for pronunciation, anyhow, a Finnish voice wouldn't necessarily do a better job in terms of pronunciation, although a Finnish voice should require fewer distinct phonemes. Creating voices does seem to involve quite a bit of work, though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message