1. [offtopic] dialects
Does anyone know where i could find a pronunciation guide for regional
dialects among native english speakers? This can encompass Britain,
Canada, Oz, usa, etc, or just one of those,, anything will help. It's for the
Metaphone project, which is rapidly becoming less and less original
Metaphone as time passes. What i want to do is pass region parms, like:
metaphoneize(TheWord , southusa )
and return (level1,level2,level3) results
so that ("dog" and "dawag") or ("south" and "sayowt") or ("ask" and "ax")
or ("ca" and "car") comparisons are relationally regionally related, if that
makes sense. I don't want to have the code output to be restricted to my
pronunciation, or a global dictionary's pronunciation.
Thanks,
Kat
2. Re: [offtopic] dialects
Hehe...
Going into TTS and STT heh?
Good for you.
Mike The Spike
--- Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> wrote:
> Does anyone know where i could find a pronunciation
> guide for regional
> dialects among native english speakers? This can
> encompass Britain,
> Canada, Oz, usa, etc, or just one of those,,
> anything will help. It's for the
> Metaphone project, which is rapidly becoming less
> and less original
> Metaphone as time passes. What i want to do is pass
> region parms, like:
>
> metaphoneize(TheWord , southusa )
> and return (level1,level2,level3) results
>
> so that ("dog" and "dawag") or ("south" and
> "sayowt") or ("ask" and "ax")
> or ("ca" and "car") comparisons are relationally
> regionally related, if that
> makes sense. I don't want to have the code output to
> be restricted to my
> pronunciation, or a global dictionary's
> pronunciation.
>
> Thanks,
> Kat
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3. Re: [offtopic] dialects
- Posted by Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET>
Jan 25, 2001
-
Last edited Jan 26, 2001
No, sorry, I don't, but I have a question:
is "Metaphone" a project for text-to-speech (using phonemes or diphones)?
Dan Moyer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kat" <gertie at PELL.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 12:03 PM
Subject: [offtopic] dialects
> Does anyone know where i could find a pronunciation guide for regional
> dialects among native english speakers? This can encompass Britain,
> Canada, Oz, usa, etc, or just one of those,, anything will help. It's for
the
> Metaphone project, which is rapidly becoming less and less original
> Metaphone as time passes. What i want to do is pass region parms, like:
>
> metaphoneize(TheWord , southusa )
> and return (level1,level2,level3) results
>
> so that ("dog" and "dawag") or ("south" and "sayowt") or ("ask" and "ax")
> or ("ca" and "car") comparisons are relationally regionally related, if
that
> makes sense. I don't want to have the code output to be restricted to my
> pronunciation, or a global dictionary's pronunciation.
>
> Thanks,
> Kat
4. Re: [offtopic] dialects
On 25 Jan 2001, at 23:32, Dan B Moyer wrote:
> No, sorry, I don't, but I have a question:
> is "Metaphone" a project for text-to-speech (using phonemes or diphones)?
No, because strictly speaking, Metaphone drops all the vowels. I should
call mine something else. I reinstated the vowels, and am fine tuning the
handling of consonants because some of it is plain wrong, at least
phonetically speaking. I may drop in a revised Soundex as the bottom
level, the broadest match, with the most losses.
I also have the usa dictionary pronunciations for 150,000 english words, but
i'd rather not use that for word comparisons for now.
Kat
> Dan Moyer
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kat" <gertie at PELL.NET>
> To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 12:03 PM
> Subject: [offtopic] dialects
>
>
> > Does anyone know where i could find a pronunciation guide for regional
> > dialects among native english speakers? This can encompass Britain,
> > Canada, Oz, usa, etc, or just one of those,, anything will help. It's for
> the
> > Metaphone project, which is rapidly becoming less and less original
> > Metaphone as time passes. What i want to do is pass region parms, like:
> >
> > metaphoneize(TheWord , southusa )
> > and return (level1,level2,level3) results
> >
> > so that ("dog" and "dawag") or ("south" and "sayowt") or ("ask" and "ax") or
> > ("ca" and "car") comparisons are relationally regionally related, if
> that
> > makes sense. I don't want to have the code output to be restricted to my
> > pronunciation, or a global dictionary's pronunciation.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kat
>
