[Microbit-Python] Making Speech Synth say "connect"?

[Nevil Hunt]

Thanks Radomir, Bob and Nicholas for your suggestions!


Nicholas - I thought I'd read all the pages in 'ReadTheDocs' but I must have missed these!


If any of the rest of you have not read these pages the I recommend you read them!

I now realise that the speech synthesiser is even better than I had thought! (and I thought it was brilliant before!)

For instance I hadn't realised you can vary the inflection of the word as shown in the examples at the bottom of the "Phonemes" section.


I think this is just what I need to vary to make "connect" sound more understandable!


With these suggestions I'm sure zbit:bod will soon be speaking better English than I do!



Thanks again,


Nevil




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From: Microbit <microbit-bounces+nevil.hunt=hotmail.co.uk at python.org> on behalf of Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll at ntoll.org>
Sent: 09 February 2017 19:38
To: microbit at python.org
Subject: Re: [Microbit-Python] Making Speech Synth say "connect"?

Also, another good place to start is by looking at the results of
speech.translate
(https://microbit-micropython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/speech.html#speech.translate).

Speech — BBC micro:bit MicroPython 0.0.1 documentation<https://microbit-micropython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/speech.html#speech.translate>
microbit-micropython.readthedocs.io
Functions¶ speech.translate (words) ¶ Given English words in the string words, return a string containing a best guess at the appropriate phonemes to pronounce.



That way you'll see how the synthesizer is mapping from spelled out
English to phonetic English.

Hope this helps,

N.

On 09/02/17 19:37, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote:
> Alternatively, use phonemes an get exactly what you specify.
>
> See:
>
> https://microbit-micropython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/speech.html#phonemes

Speech — BBC micro:bit MicroPython 0.0.1 documentation<https://microbit-micropython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/speech.html#phonemes>
microbit-micropython.readthedocs.io
Functions¶ speech.translate (words) ¶ Given English words in the string words, return a string containing a best guess at the appropriate phonemes to pronounce.



>
>
> On 09/02/17 18:53, Robert Humphrey wrote:
>> How about “Con ec ted” ?
>> Bob
>>> On 9 Feb 2017, at 18:30, Radomir Dopieralski <radomir at dopieralski.pl
>>> <mailto:radomir at dopieralski.pl>> wrote:
>>>
>>> To my non-native speaker ears "kon akt" sounds better.
>>>
>>> On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 17:14:42 +0000
>>> Nevil Hunt <nevil.hunt at hotmail.co.uk
>>> <mailto:nevil.hunt at hotmail.co.uk>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone manage to make the micro:bit Speech Synth say "connect"
>>>> any better than I've managed?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The best I've done is:-
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> speech.say("con ect")
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> but it's not that understandable. I've played around with it for a
>>>> while but I've not managed to come up with anything better!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is the first word I've encountered where I've struggled to find
>>>> a combination of letters that makes it 'say' the word is a reasonably
>>>> intelligible way!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> By the way, if you've not tried the Speech Synth in Micro Python the
>>>> give it a go! It's brilliant!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nevil
>>>
>>>
>>>
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