What about the other languages?

[Daniel49332]

The title says it all. Thank you, Daniel.

[amirsol81]

@Daniel49332 It's up to users. My French, Spanish or German isn't good enough to do such a thing. Users can do that for other languages here if they wish, and their files can be published alongside the US English dictionaries.

[Daniel49332]

I would like to see a Brazilian Portuguese dictionary!

[RetroBunn]

If you know the SPR output for a particular word that the synthesizer doesn't pronounce properly in that language, you might be able to create a pull request with your changes. Sadly, I'm not sure where you would find the individual phonemes for any other languages.

[Daniel49332]

Thank you.

[ultrasound1372]

As Amir said, we are absolutely open to contributions for pronunciations in other languages, just none of us speak the languages well enough and actually use IBMTTS in that language, so we don't know what fixes would need to be made. If you have contributions to be made, you can open a PR< or if we start getting contributions for other languages we can split up the dict issues into language/dict variants, and create issues for those languages. We might also switch to GitHub discussions, Rain and I have pondered that.

[hozosch]

Ok, it seems I'm free to submit my German fixes then. I verified that all is working properly, so there are no issues with those. But we'd also need to modify this repository's metadata then, since it would no longer contain just US english.

[amirsol81]

@hozosch Sure thing. So the upcoming release will also contain your German dictionary file(s).

[hozosch]

As for phonemes for other languages, you can find the elocutor program here. Extract it wherever you want, and launch elocutor_demo.exe. In the menubar / options / speaking options, select your language. Then, enable spr output, also in the options menu. When you type something and press f5, instead of audio, you get the SPR output of what you typed right after the original text.

[hozosch]

@amirsol81 thanks for merging my PR! The only thing that still needs to change is the repository summary. Currently, it says "A large, community-driven pronunciation dictionary for the IBMTTS speech synthesizer in American English". I suggest just removing the "In american English" bit.

[amirsol81]

@hozosch Good point. But it seems that I don't have the required permission to modify the project summary. @ultrasound1372 @eigencrow Could you please make the needed modification?

[ultrasound1372]

Nor do I. I'll get with Eigencrow about it.

[amirsol81]

@hozosch Since you brought up elocutor, I just tried downloading it, but the provided download link no longer works.

[hozosch]

It's no longer an executable file, it's a 7z now. I edited my comment, the link should be working now.

[amirsol81]

@hozosch Thanks for the updated link.