From be44c4ba852eae16f60e2ea190f10a4767c6b624 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Reece H. Dunn" Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 16:45:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs/phonemes.md: add a paragraph explaining how the feature set is intended to be used. --- docs/phonemes.md | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/phonemes.md b/docs/phonemes.md index 267b78cf..3e594b92 100644 --- a/docs/phonemes.md +++ b/docs/phonemes.md @@ -43,7 +43,14 @@ described as a sequence of features. This document describes the IPA phonemes using the features used by Kirshenbaum. Where Kirshenbaum does not specify a feature name, the feature name from Cainteoir Text-to-Speech\[5\] is used. This is -to provide a consistent naming scheme for the extended feature set. +to provide a consistent naming scheme for the extended feature set. Where there +is still no feature available, a custom 3-letter feature name is chosen. + +The aim of the feature set described in this document is to specify the underlying +phonetics and phonemics of the sounds being produced in a way that is consistent +between languages and voices. While this feature set is modelled on the IPA, it +is not meant to be able to preserve phoneme transcriptions when using a +transcription as both the input and output phoneme sets. This document is grouped into two sections. The first section displays the IPA charts using the feature names instead of their names, showing the IPA phoneme