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Fonix DECtalk: 5.01-E1 User Guide Phoneme Interpretation [:phoneme] Description When phoneme interpretation is set to on, the Phoneme Interpretation command allows everything within brackets to be interpreted as phonemic text. All phoneme interpretation of text can be silenced by using the [:phoneme silent on] command. By default, the text is spoken without phoneme interpretation. When you phonemicize text, put valid phoneme strings in brackets. See Reference Tables for a list of valid phonemic symbols. Phoneme interpretation allows you to specify the preferred pronunciation of a word or phrase. It is important to note that this command sets the left bracket ([) and right bracket (]) characters as phoneme delimiters. When the user has the phoneme interpretation turned on [:phoneme on], all text and characters that appear between brackets are interpreted as phonemic text and is pronounced as such. For example, to say the word associate, simply embed the phonemic string [axs ’ owshiyeyt] in the text string. Note that the pronunciation of the phonemic string is different depending on whether phoneme interpretation is on or off. When phoneme interpretation is on, additional attributes can be associated with the phoneme text. See Pitch and Duration of Tones (Reference Tables) for information on how to code a phoneme sequence to produce musical sounds. See Stress and Syntactic Symbols for a complete list of symbols used with phoneme text. NOTE 1: Arpabet mode is a 2-character system. All single character symbols must be followed by a space so that faulty translations do not occur. Consider the phonemic representation of "whitehorse," [* w 'ayt hxowr s ]. The letter "t" in this phonemic representation must be followed by a space, so that it is not interpreted as part of the phonemic symbol [th] in the representation of "whitehorse." NOTE 2: Some older versions of DECtalk supported single characters in arpabet mode. Application programs written for use with those versions may fail to function correctly when used with DECtalk V4.6 or higher. Syntax [:phoneme XX1 XX2 YY] or [:phoneme arpabet speak on] Alternate ... Range ... Options arpabet Set phonetic interpretation to arpabet alphabet. (Currently, this option is the only alphabet allowed.) speak If phoneme interpretation is on, speak encountered phonemes. The speak option is ignored if phoneme interpretation is off. silent If phoneme interpretation is on, do not speak encountered phonemes. The silent option is ignored if phoneme interpretation is off. 14
Parameters on turn phoneme interpretation on Default off off turn phoneme interpretation off Notes 1. Asynchronous In-line commands 2. Make sure you use a right bracket (]) to end the phonemic symbols. If you do not, any normal text appearing after the phonemic symbols sounds garbled. One right bracket is sufficient to close phonemic mode. It is sometimes useful to begin a text file with a right bracket (]) to ensure that text is not interpreted phonemically. A command sequence consisting of a left bracket followed by a colon ([:) is always interpreted as the beginning of a command. Examples [:phoneme arpabet speak on] [axs ’owshiyeyt] associate [:phoneme speak on] [axs ’owshiyeyt] associate [:phoneme on] [axs ’owshiyeyt] associate [:phoneme speak off] [axs ’owshiyeyt] pronounced as axsociate [:phoneme off] [axs ’owshiyeyt] pronounced as axsociate [:phoneme silent off] [axs ’owshiyeyt] pronounced as axsociate [:phoneme silent on] [axs ’owshiyeyt] associate not spoken 15
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