At 09:08 16/05/2002 -0600, Sean M. Burke wrote:
>At 09:23 2002-05-16 +0200, Lee Goddard wrote:
>>1. Get a rhythm from a phrase (the title) and use it throughout.
>> Impossible without knowing where in a word the accent falls,
>> and there is no formula in English. But I have a plan, involving
>> the use of the apostrophes used in (good) dictionaries to mark
>> stress --- if it's not in my rhyming dictionary module then I'll
>> put together a module to read my OED CD-ROM.
>
>I think the Moby Pronunciator marks stress passably well:
>http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/
>
>In fact, I wrote a bit of simple code for dealing with it, for a TPJ
>article a while back. The code is here:
>http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/~sburke/mpron/
>And I'm told that that article will appear in the /Games, Diversions, &
>Perl Culture: Best of The Perl Journal/ volume that O'Reilly will have out
>in... three months maybe? It's elementary text handling, nothing you
>couldn't infer from just looking at the code there and at the format of
>the Moby Pronunciator files.
Looks cool - thanks for the tip. Hope it has an English accent...!
PS Glad you're still talking to me ;-)
lee
Lee Goddard
perl -e "while(1){print rand>0.5?chr 47:chr 92}"
