On 05/29/2017 03:31 AM, Poutnik Fornntp wrote: That means, if there is among Osm road data a substring e.g "85A", Osmand passes it to the system TTS, supposing it will be pronounced as expected.
Some TTS engines may pretend they know the context better and pronounce the ending letters as names of physical units, like if it was a technical text. How the particular navigation pronounces it depends on what system TTS engine is set to be used on the Android level, and if the application installs a/o uses any on its own. On 29 May 2017 06:29:35 Poutnik Fornntp <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > AFAIK, pronunciation of Osm data is not given by OSMand itself, but by > used voice engine, either as Texttospeach, either as prerecorded voice. Try > to install different TTS engine as the default one. > > Osmand IMHO just provides additional data to be spoken e.g. as guidance, > that are not in Osm data. > > But in case I am totally wrong and osmand has its own engine built in, > anybody feel free to correct me. > The speech synthesis API on Android (don't know about other platforms) allows SSML as well as plain text. The <phoneme> element will allow for giving the pronunciation of unusual names (and would require tagging them in OSM with pronunciation, but I'd surely do that for the places that I'm tiring of hearing mispronounced!). I don't think there's an accepted tagging scheme for this - the proposal at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Phonetics appears to be moribund. But I'd love to be able to put in name:en:IPA=/vəˈleɪ.ʃə/ or name:en:XSAMPA=/v@"leIS@/ for 'Valatie'. I'm tired of hearing /ˈvæ.ləˌtiː/, even though that's a reasonable guess to make if you don't live around here. The <say-as> would allow proper speaking of highway references: <say-as interpret-as="cardinal">85</say-as> <say-as><interpret-as="characters">A</say-as> would render as "eighty-five A" not "eighty-five amperes". I think that most speech synthesis engines must have something like this available, because otherwise, correct pronunciation of proper names would be well-nigh impossible. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
