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Is there an online tool to convert IPA symbols into audio sound?
IPA Reader is a nice front-end to Amazon's Polly service, configured specifically for IPA text.
Click on the “Read” button for it to read the word “ad hoc” out loud.
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Is there an online tool to convert IPA symbols into audio sound?
I'm currently using espeak, an open-source software. Not so bad, even if the voices sound artificial. Details here.
E.g. : (Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium, 1.1.1)
espeak -v eo --ipa -s120 -p60 -a20 "[...
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Is there an online tool to convert IPA symbols into audio sound?
Amazon Web Services' Polly text-to-speech service supports Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) and specifically its <phoneme> element.
You will need to create an AWS account, but you can ...
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Is there an online tool to convert IPA symbols into audio sound?
There is a phoneme synthesis tool that runs entirely in your browser and converts IPA into sound that you can play in your browser or download as a WAV file. It requires no software to install, no ...
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Where does Google's pronunciation notation come from?
It seems to be a custom system developed by Google. Wikipedia lists it as the "Google pronunciation dictionary" scheme in its table of pronunciation respellings.
In particular, Google spells ...
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Looking for a neutral speech synthesis tool to read IPA without accent
The problem is, the IPA isn't quite as precise as it looks. Its goal is to capture every distinction made in human languages, and it does a reasonably good job of that—many languages have a contrast ...
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Text-to-speech for arbitrary vowels (i.e not just ipa)
A colleague had such a device some years ago, but it depended on a touch interface that was a decade before there were touch interfaces. Theoretically it would not be hard to create such an interface, ...
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Is there an online tool to convert IPA symbols into audio sound?
IBM Text to Speech also supports IPA per their docs here:
https://console.bluemix.net/docs/services/text-to-speech/SPRs.html#ipa
https://console.bluemix.net/docs/services/text-to-speech/SSML-elements....
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What is the name of the category that describes the ways a number can be read?
The rhythmic grouping of numbers is usually called "phrasing", e.g. "4-3 2-1-7 9-1-5-6". Within a "phrase", at least in English, there are still options regarding reading ...
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Is there an online tool to convert IPA symbols into audio sound?
Try ekho if you want to synthesize Mandarin and other Chinese dialects. It's open-source and hosted on github.
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Is direct reported speech more common in Turkish than indirect reported speech?
I wrote my PhD dissertation on reported speech in Kazakh (Turkic) and I can tell you the following:
In conversational data (5 hours), I found only one instance of indirect reported speech against ...
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Text to Speech Systems for Arabic
No, lack of vowels or diacritic vowel marks is not a particular problem for text-to-speech systems, which usually make use of a dictionary of phonetic transcriptions anyway.
Very few languages have a ...
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Is there an online tool to convert IPA symbols into audio sound?
I found this: http://ipa-reader.xyz
Multiple accents are offered.
At least on my phone I note that mini IPA symbols are not displayed at all. But they work: they are pronounced even though they are ...
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Is there an online tool to convert IPA symbols into audio sound?
The AT&T text to speech wizard moved to www.wizzardsoftware.com/text-to-speech-sdk.php
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Algorithm for figuring out the pronunciation of a word
Unfortunately, any algorithm for determining the pronunciation from its spelling would be rife with special cases and exceptions. That's simply the nature of our spelling system. In the distant past (...
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What is the name of the category that describes the ways a number can be read?
I am not aware of any linguistic terminology for this particular kind of conventions. However, there is some applicable terminology from software engineering, particularly from the field of ...
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How to synthesize French vowels
I'm not familiar with this toolkit, but given your description my suggestion would be to check formant bandwidths. You are creating rounded vowels, and formant bandwidths are correlated with the ...
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Algorithm for figuring out the pronunciation of a word
It depends on which word, and what person. At the most basic level, you have learned the various rules of English (subjects before verbs, adjectives before nouns, and so on), and also the morphemes of ...
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Where does Google's pronunciation notation come from?
I spent some time trying to find more information, but found nothing conclusive, not even in the Google speech-to-text or translation APIs.
I also found that the pronunciation respelling system ...
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What is the name of the category that describes the ways a number can be read?
The syllables of an utterance are normally split into intonational phrases, or IPs, for short. You can think of each IP as consisting of a miniature tune, or musical phrase.
In a situation where the ...
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Is there software (eg. desktop or mobile app) out there that helps learners learn all the sounds of the world with the IPA?
You can only synthesize actual sounds, not phonemes, which are abstract constructs in phonological analysis. IPA letters stand for a range of actual sounds which may be particular phonemes in a ...
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Algorithm for figuring out the pronunciation of a word
So my question is, if there is a resource to look at that outlines the rules for sounding out words, or if it is purely a learned thing that there are too many rules to write down.
I would say that ...
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Help understanding letter sets
I don't get the full pattern, but there are some common properties:
D [d], L [l], N [n] are all voiced alveolar
consonants; J (usually pronounced [dʒ]) is postalveolar
[ B D G J L M N R V W ...
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