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Hi,
I need a pronounciation dictionary for Australian English dialect in IPA or ANDOSL phoneme symboles, One like the cmu one but for Australian English?
Thanks,
Mostafa Shahin
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>One like the cmu one but for Australian English?
Ralf’s Australian English dictionary 0.1
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Thanks for your reply, but accually I reviewed some of the words of this dictionary with the http://www.macquariedictionary.com.au (an Australian English dictionary) and I found that the pronounciation dosn't match.
I looked at how he has created his dictionary and I found that he use the espeak (Speech Synthesizer engine) to create the pronounciation, but espeak dosn't support the Australian accent.
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Thanks for your reply, but accually I reviewed some of the words of this dictionary with the http://www.macquariedictionary.com.au (an Australian English dictionary) and I found that the pronounciation dosn't match.
Don't expect an exact match. Pronuciation dictionaries aren't exact things, what's most important is that they are consistent.
I looked at how he has created his dictionary and I found that he use the espeak (Speech Synthesizer engine) to create the pronounciation, but espeak dosn't support the Australian accent.
But it has rules for dialects such as Scottish - perhaps the author created rules for Australian?
It's GPL - why not take the engineers view and ask whether it is good enough for the job you want to do?
Tony
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Dr Tony Robinson
Founder Cantab Research Ltd
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