Hi, I'm looking for this in the forum, but haven't found it yet, so maybe it's better to just ask
Do you know if there's a way in Papagayo (or Papagayo Mod) to use different phonemes? Currently, we are not using the Preston Blair's ones, but +20 other phonemes with their own names.
It would be great to know a way to adapt the software to use them instead.
Thank you very much for any help.
Using different phonemes?
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Re: Using different phonemes?
which papagayo version are you using?
V2 has its dictionaries "compiled in"; but IIRC V1 had them as separate files.
The basic principle is:
text (words) are used to reference the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Pronouncing Dictionary. This is a phonetic breakdown in N American English using 39 phonemes - e.g. Aluminium (without lexical stress) is translated as
AH L UW M IH N AH M
Papagayo then maps those to the PB phoneme set.
So, to use you own mouth shapes, it's necessary to change the mapping table to map the CMU-39 to something other than the PB set
But I haven't tried it, so I don't know the details
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[edit] Found the V1 files: there's a file called phonemes.py (a python source file) which you can update. Note that the CMU source mapping includes lexical stress (suffix 0, 1, 2) on some phonemes
V2 has its dictionaries "compiled in"; but IIRC V1 had them as separate files.
The basic principle is:
text (words) are used to reference the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Pronouncing Dictionary. This is a phonetic breakdown in N American English using 39 phonemes - e.g. Aluminium (without lexical stress) is translated as
AH L UW M IH N AH M
Papagayo then maps those to the PB phoneme set.
So, to use you own mouth shapes, it's necessary to change the mapping table to map the CMU-39 to something other than the PB set
But I haven't tried it, so I don't know the details
==
[edit] Found the V1 files: there's a file called phonemes.py (a python source file) which you can update. Note that the CMU source mapping includes lexical stress (suffix 0, 1, 2) on some phonemes