[DECtalk] User dictionary
Jayson Smith
jaybird at bluegrasspals.com
Fri Feb 24 11:56:47 EST 2023
Hi,
I don't know what to say, except that you might try asking this question
on the DECtalk Discord if you have access to that.
Jayson
On 2/23/2023 11:24 PM, Kyle via Dectalk wrote:
> Has anyone gotten user dictionaries working? Based on what I found in
> the documentation, I created a test file that I called dictionary.tab.
> For now, the file simply contains
>
> whatchamacallit [w 'ah ch ax m ax k `ao ll ih t]
>
> In /opt/dectalk/DECTalk.conf, which is copied from the DECTalk.conf in
> the dist folder when I compiled and installed it, I have the following
> line:
>
> US_udict:udict_us.dic
>
> So I ran
>
> udic_us dictionary.tab udict_us.dic
>
> This appears to complete without errors and I get a data file. Oddly
> enough, the file is not called udict_us.dic, but is called
> udict_us.dtu. So I copied the file into my /opt/dectalk installation
> directory as udict_us.dic, which is the filename mentioned in
> DECTalk.conf. Then I tried
>
> say -a whatchamacallit
>
> But my dictionary entry that I tried to compile seems to be ignored,
> as the default pronunciation of whatchamacallit is still spoken rather
> than my dictionary entry, which should sound more correct. The same
> thing happens when I change the name of the file back to udict_us.dtu
> and when I change the reference in opt/dectalk/DECTalk.conf so that it
> uses the dtu extension. I also tried putting the files into the
> /opt/dectalk/dic folder, both with the .dic and the .dtu extension,
> and I hear the same result; my whatchamacallit user dictionary entry
> is ignored. What did I do wrong? Thanks for any help.
>
> ~Kyle
>
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