OpenEuphoria

Re: [offtopic] dialects

• Posted by John Cage <drcage2000 at YAHOO.COM> Jan 25, 2001
• 593 views

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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