[DECtalk] difficulty entering the phonemes for a particular word in DECTalk.

Mohamed Al-Hajamy malhajamy at gmail.com
Sat Dec 17 22:00:54 EST 2016


Ah, the er phoneme worked. It seems the file I have doesn't mention the 
er phoneme. That brings me to another question. Is there a way to view 
the phonemic output of a word in DECTalk? It might help me in senarios 
like this.


On 12/17/2016 9:42 PM, Ulysses Garcia via Dectalk wrote:
> Have you tried adding an apostrophe to the first vowel to iindicate 
> stress? M'ehrriy? Alternatively, try the combination er, instead of 
> ehrr. M'eriy.
>
>
> On 17/12/2016 18:02, Mohamed Al-Hajamy wrote:
>> Hi, I am trying to write a new song, and one of the words that is 
>> part of the lyrics is the word "marry." However, when I try to write 
>> it using the phonemes "meh riy", I don't get a good sounding "marry" 
>> sound out of it. The problem is it says Meh ree rather than marry, 
>> and I can't seem to figure out what the word would be phonetically. 
>> The ey sound is less stressed than a normal a, and the ey sound is 
>> slightly de emphasized. I tried ey rx iy, as well as eh rr iy, 
>> however I can't seem to figure out what it would translate to. Does 
>> anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
>>
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