Discussion Forums > Technology
Pop Artists Are Made Obsolete
lapa321:
--- Quote from: Soryon on October 21, 2011, 12:26:49 AM ---Inside of America I have heard it pronounced both ways.
--- End quote ---
Why is the 'u' in umbrella pronouced differently from universe?
Soryon:
--- Quote from: lapa321 on October 21, 2011, 12:30:07 AM ---
--- Quote from: Soryon on October 21, 2011, 12:26:49 AM ---Inside of America I have heard it pronounced both ways.
--- End quote ---
Why is the 'u' in umbrella pronouced differently from universe?
--- End quote ---
Because of the e's I would imagine. Like with almost any other word, the E will change the sound of preceding vowels. ace / act kinda thing.
Or just because language is not always straight forward.
lapa321:
--- Quote from: Soryon on October 21, 2011, 12:35:04 AM ---Because of the e's I would imagine. Like with almost any other word, the E will change the sound of preceding vowels. ace / act kinda thing.
Or just because language is not always straight forward.
--- End quote ---
Agreed, there's just too many contextual rules in english. The lack of consistency is what makes it harder for machines to pronounce.
lapa321:
Googled phonetics and found this
--- Quote ---Eye have a spelling chequer,
It came with my pea sea.
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss Steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
and weight four it two say
Weather Eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid,
It nose bee fore two long,
And Eye can put the error rite -
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no,
Its letter perfect awl the weigh.
My spell chequer tolled me sew.
--- End quote ---
Anybody with a text-to-speech engine on hand? ;D
Ultra_Magnus:
--- Quote from: lapa321 on October 20, 2011, 11:16:40 PM ---
--- Quote from: Ultra_Magnus on October 20, 2011, 02:36:10 PM ---
--- Quote from: rostheferret on October 20, 2011, 10:43:45 AM ---tbh Japan is probably going to lead the way. They're the furthest with the vocaloid technology
--- End quote ---
Japanese has something like half the sounds that are used in english, so it stands to reason that it is easier to synthesise.
--- End quote ---
How does Hiragana or Katakana compare to written English? I'm not too familiar with japanese language but AFAIK, they can write things as they're spoken, but my own understanding of english makes a lot of exception to how words are pronounced. 'u' is pronounced 'you', but in 'umbrella' it's pronounced 'ah'. Each letter needs its own context library and that may be a reason why this isn't as readily researched in english even tho it's a more commonly spoken language.
--- End quote ---
That is how I understand it too, phonetically Japanese is a very simple language.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version