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The easy way to learn how to do the mapping is to start with the simple examples given in the SAPI 5 charts like cat and type cat into a standard dictionary with IPA, very soon you will you will be able to do the mapping automatically.

You can find the US English SAPI 5 Phoneme set here . The mapping from IPA to SAPI 5 is very straightforward: For the word Tagalog http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/tagalog?showCookiePolicy=true /təˈɡɑː.lɒɡ/ (IPA) t ax - g aa 1 l aa g (SAPI 5) ɒ does not have a SAPI 5 equivalent so...

Greetings Gayle, RC SAPI 5 has improved significantly since your purchase; for information on obtaining a free update please see the following Post . I could not find Lycan in any standard reference but I listened to a pronunciation of Lycan on forvo.com . If the pronunciation on forvo.com is correc...

Hi Gayle, Do you currently have any entries in your Pronunciation Dictionary Maintenance (PDM) or are you using any TextAloud dictionaries to correct for these type of errors? First, correcting for the mispronunciation of the homograph read can be done but it is not an easy task. For example in the ...

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Just ask Jim Bretti /ˌdʒɪm ˈbrɛt.t̬i/ for a PDF copy Acapela's UK English Guide which has a list of the UK phoneme set.

Greetings, I need your Tagalog expertise: Can you tell me whether the forvo.com pronunciation at http://www.forvo.com/word/hagupit/#tl for Hagupit is correct? (You may have to turn the sound up very high). In terms of IPA pronunciation, I am hearing /hɑːˈgu.pɪt/ for the pronunciation of Hagupit.

I have a hard copy of Acapela's UK English Phoneme Set that I printed out from an Acapela manual but I don't have the manual available. Perhaps Jim Bretti might be able to provide you with a PDF of Acapela's UK English Phoneme set. In any case, if you purchase an Acapela UK voice, the Phoneme dictio...

It is very doubtful that you will find a Tagalog/Filipino SAPI 5 Voice. There are SAPI 5 Phoneme sets for the major languages like US English, UK English, French, German and so on. You can find the US English SAPI 5 Phoneme set here . As you can see, US English has one of poorest phoneme sets. UK En...

Greetings Jim,

I have sent you the files to simulate a crash.

My definition of a crash is that the error stops TextAloud from working. I am not sure if this is the definition of a crash you are also using.

Getting respell with </voice> to work You can get </voice> to work as you intended if you follow these steps: 1. Create a new TA Dictionary 2. In the new Dictionary enter only the two regexes for the voice change. 3. Turn off all other TA Dictionaries (only the new dictionary should be checked on)....

I know I need to get myself educated on regex but I'm wondering why using this regular expression \]\) respell with </voice> didn't address the issue. I just noticed your follow-up question: respell with </voice> did not work because this is a known bug in TextAloud. This is a serious and annoying ...

If your are using TextAloud phoneme facility, the correct phoneme for nanoparticle would be the following: n ae n 1 ow - p aa r 2 t ih - k ax l However, you indicated that your voice is AT&T NV Chrystal, so a better solution is to use AT&T's English phoneme editor located at the following (i...

The IPA pronunciations for nanoparticle are the following /ˈnæn.əʊˌpɑː.tɪ.kᵊl/ (U.K. English) /ˈnæn.oʊˌpɑr.tɪ.kᵊl/ (U.S. English) see http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/nanoparticle?showCookiePolicy=true You will need to substitute the above IPA pronunciation into your voice's phone...

Greetings,

Is it possible to use the value (content) captured in one regular expression as input in a second regular expression?

For SAPI 5: The Rate tag controls the rate of a voice. The tag can be empty, in which case it applies to all subsequent text, or it can have content, in which case it only applies to that content. The Rate tag has two attributes, Speed and AbsSpeed, one of which must be present. The value of both of...

The following regex should do the skip for you. Enter as regular expression (?#Skip)(?m)(?:^|\s|['"‘“(]|\p{Pi}|\p{Ps}|\p{Pd})\K\[[0-9][0-9,. ]*\](?=[’”\p{Po}\p{Pe}\p{Pf}]{0,2}(?:\s|$)) then choose Skip text. On the voice change issue: If you replace \) with \]\) the regexes I supplied to you sh...

Greetings, (?#start_[)(?m)(?:^|\s|['"‘“(]|\p{Pi}|\p{Ps}|\p{Pd})\(\K(?=[^)\r\n(]+\)[’”\p{Po}\p{Pe}\p{Pf}]{0,2}(?:\s|$)) <voice required="name = Heather22k_HQ"> (?#end_])(?m)(?:^|\s|['"‘“(]|\p{Pi}|\p{Ps}|\p{Pd})\([^)\r\n(]+\K(?=\)[’”\p{Po}\p{Pe}\p{Pf}]{0,2}(?:\s|$)) <voice required...

For the voice change on parenthesis problem, you can use the following post as a template: http://www.nextup.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6474&p=15209&hilit=parenthesis#p15209 For the skip numbers problem, you can use the following post as a template: http://www.nextup.com/phpBB2/view...

Greetings,

Thanks for this information; it also seems to work when using 'ipa' instead of 'x-sampa' though you would have to change U to ʊ and E to ɛ (which are the IPA equivalent)

For お祖母さん ˈoʊˈbɑˈsæŋ (US English) ˈəʊˈbɑˈsæŋ (UK English) You can verify the pronunciation at the following web site: http://www.ivona.com/us/ Choose British English, Amy and enter the following: <phoneme alphabet="ipa" ph="ˈəʊˈbɑˈsæŋ"></phoneme> then press Play. For 御祖母さん ˈoʊˈso...

Greetings, I tried all the forms of Obāsan (in Japanese) that you provided using the following web sites: https://translate.google.com/ http://www.acapela-group.com/ http://www.nuance.com/vocalizer5/flash/index.html The problem is that the pronunciation of Obāsan varies significantly with all three....

Greetings, A good way to deal with interjections like hmm, is to record the sound from a online dictionary and use regular expression, the Pronunciation Dictionary Maintenance and the audio tag to play the recording whenever it comes across the interjection (hmm, in this case). You can find very goo...

Greetings Jim,

I have not installed TextAloud version 3.0.69 as yet, but could you please expanded on the "phoneme pronunciation corrections" cited in the release notes?

Greetings,

Choosing a voice is a very subjective thing: You can use the following sites with demos to help you choose:

http://www.acapela-group.com/

http://www.cepstral.com/en/demos

Regarding Text-to-Speech Readers see the following Post

Hi Jim, I think I mean, I would like to be able to assign a voice to a dictionary even when the dictionary is disabled. (by this I mean that the voice would still use the dictionary even if it is disabled in the Pronunciation Dictionary Maintenance and the voice is enabled and currently active). How...

Greetings,

It would be nice to have a feature that assigns one dictionary to a particular voice even if that dictionary is currently turned-off.

To do what you are requesting using phonemes requires the use of regular expressions and also a voice that is SAPI 5 compatible that recognizes the silence character, _. For example if you have Ivona U.S. English voices you can use the following regular expression and respell: (?#I key)(?m)(?:^|\s|[...

Greetings, Depending on the voice you are using any of the following punctuations should accomplish what you are after: Hit the I, key in order to add a key frame Hit the I. Key in order to add a key frame Hit the, I, key in order to add a key frame For more control you could use the {{Pause=0.50}} ...

Hi Jim,

%Title% %ArticleIndex% of %ArticleCount% is working fine for me.

Thanks

Greetings Jim,

Since I never use Simple Text or Mask Expressions, I am wondering if there is a way to search a dictionary's entries for Simple Text or Mask entries that I may have inadvertently entered?