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From: GELSON%SBU.UFRGS.ANRS.BR@uicvm.uic.edu (Gelson Dias Santos)
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Subject: Re: Why can't the Amiga talk properly
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Date: 30 Apr 91 09:58:54 GMT
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   Lee Sailer <UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>As I recall, those phoneme files are in something called the "ARPABET",
>which is a "no special characters" version of the widely used IPA, or
>International Phonetic Alphabet.  The IPA is supposed to be able to make
>all (nearly all??) sounds from any human language, but you have to
>know the IPA "spelling."  (In this case, you need the ARPABET spelling.
>I think they used to be in the BASIC manual, of all places.)

 I'm trying to make the amiga speak in portuguese, and I have the same problem.
 I can find the correct IPA phonemes for portuguese words in good dictionaries,
but how can I convert them to ARPABET ? Is there any kind of "conversion table"
somewhere?

>One last point.  Believe me now and hear me later.  The Amiga does
>not do such a good job on English, either.  I'd be surprised if
>it could do any worse on Danish.  Ja?  Oui?  Da?  Ano?  Maalob?  Yes?

 It speak better than I :-)

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