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Re: [offtopic] dialects

• Posted by Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET> Jan 25, 2001
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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