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
>
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