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voice tag not switching lexicon?
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Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:42 amby IanWorthington
When I switch from my default English voice to a Spanish voice using the voice tag I get what seems to be a Spanish acented voice but with an English pronounciation of the words: most odd.
Do I need to do something to switch the lexicon as well?
Posted:
Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:57 amby hailong
the user-defined lexicon is voice dependent. You need to modify the lexicon.txt file in the voice directory for which you want the pronunciation changes.
Posted:
Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:22 amby IanWorthington
I'm not using the user lexicon, just the default ones.
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Tue May 15, 2007 10:46 amby Alex
Hello Ian,
Are you synthesizing English text? If that's the case: the Spanish voices are designed to speak Spanish text, and do not perform any auto-translation.
-Alex
Posted:
Tue May 15, 2007 1:39 pmby IanWorthington
No. The English voice is requested to speak English text, the Spanish voice Spanish text.
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Wed May 16, 2007 11:27 amby Alex
Hmm interesting, I get what you're saying now.
I just tried to reproduce that with some voices that I have on this system at the moment, and it seemed ok.
I used:
swift -f ml.txt
Where ml.txt contained:
<voice name='David'> Hello, this is David.</voice>
<voice name='Jean-Pierre'> Bonjour. C'est la vie.</voice>
I'll install Miguel and compare him with David as well.
Could you share the command/SSML that produced the oddity?
Thanks,
-Alex