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Suggested improvement to pronunciation for Cobalt (with Microsoft TTS male en-AU voice, James) #2442

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slippycheeze opened this issue Dec 19, 2022 · 1 comment
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Suggested improvement to pronunciation for Cobalt (with Microsoft TTS male en-AU voice, James) #2442

slippycheeze opened this issue Dec 19, 2022 · 1 comment
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9. enhancement The behaviour is as specified, but we would like to modify or extend the spec. won't change We won't change this (usually because it is infeasible or would break another app).

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What happens now

Microsoft TTS male en-AU voice, James, pronounces "cobalt" very, very poorly. Unrecognisably poorly.

What I'd like to happen

A custom lexicon entry with the correct pronunciation should resolve this; given it isn't likely a conflict, I'd suggest it for everyone™, but YMMV.

How it can happen

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<lexicon version="1.0" 
      xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/01/pronunciation-lexicon"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2005/01/pronunciation-lexicon 
        http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-pronunciation-lexicon-20071212/pls.xsd"

      alphabet="ipa"
      xml:lang="en-au">
  <lexeme>
    <!-- didn't automatically get cobalt, the element, correct. -->
    <grapheme>cobalt</grapheme>
    <phoneme>ˈkoʊbɒlt</phoneme>
  </lexeme>
</lexicon>

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v.4.0.1
@Tkael Tkael added the 9. enhancement The behaviour is as specified, but we would like to modify or extend the spec. label Dec 20, 2022
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Given that "cobalt" is a common real-world word, seems like a problem with the voice rather than EDDI. The lexicon is more intended for fixing terms that are specific to astronomy and/or the fictional setting.

@Tkael Tkael changed the title Suggested custom lexicon for en-au pronunciation Suggested improvement to pronunciation for Cobalt (with Microsoft TTS male en-AU voice, James) Dec 25, 2022
@Tkael Tkael added the won't change We won't change this (usually because it is infeasible or would break another app). label Aug 7, 2024
@Tkael Tkael closed this as completed Aug 7, 2024
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