IPA Transcription

[jfg2131]

Is the English-language transcription intentional? The International Phonetic Alphabet would be generalizable and more precise.

[maxhawkins]

Thank you for the message! We use ARPAbet for phonetic transcriptions because the speech model we use is based on the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

I added a page to the wiki with some more information about our pre-packaged model. It is not yet possible to use another model with Gentle. However, this is something we'd like to do.

There are versions of the CMU Pronouncing Dictioanry that use IPA. In the future we may build a model that uses this alternate dictionary.

See ARPAbet wikipedia page for more information about how the symbols map to IPA.

[jfg2131]

Thanks for the quick response!

Jake

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Max Hawkins notifications@github.com
wrote:

Thank you for the message! We use ARPAbet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpabet for phonetic transcriptions
because the speech model we use is based on the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict.

I added a page to the wiki
https://github.com/lowerquality/gentle/wiki/Model with some more
information about our pre-packaged model. It is not yet possible to use
another model with Gentle. However, this is something we'd like to do.

There are versions of the CMU Pronouncing Dictioanry that use IPA. In the
future we may build a model that uses this alternate dictionary.

See ARPAbet wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpabet for
more information about how the symbols map to IPA.

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