The espeak subversion and development releases do not provide the
full dictionary data for the Russian and Chinese languages due to
their size. The supplemental data is instead provided at
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/data/ for the user to download and
use to build the improved language files themselves.
These files are included in the dictsource/extra directory for
completeness and so they can be properly versioned/tracked over
time.
They are not included in the dictsource directory as this would
cause them to be used to build the dictionary files, so would
differ from the dictionaries built by espeak.
These are the spelling-to-phoneme pronunciation rules and exceptions lists
for each language.
You can make changes and then re-compile them to produce the "_dict"
file in the espeak-data data directory (eg. "en_dict") which the
speak program used.
Use:
speak --compile=<voicename>
to compile the data for a particular language. It automatically replaces
the corresponding _dict file in espeak-data, ready for use by the
speak program.
An "_extra" file, (eg. en_extra) can be used to in addition to the "_list" file
to add exception words without disturbing the official "_list" file.
It is treated as an extension of the "_list" file.
Language Notes:
Russian. An additional dictionary of Russian words and their stress positions
is available at http://espeak.sourceforge.net/data/russian_data.zip.
This allows eSpeak to put the stress on the correct syllable of Russian words.
Reece H. Dunn
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