Tobias Platen wrote > On 03/22/2016 08:18 PM, David Cuny wrote: >> Sorry, I didn't mean to propose that. I just wanted to note that a >> fallback >> that allowed phonetic symbols would be necessary. >> >> As to the rest, my (unofficial) thought is that it currently takes quite >> a >> bit of manual intervention to get English working well with the UTAU >> toolchain, whether it uses VCV or CVVC. And each approach requires a >> different set of tools to connect the samples together. It seems to me >> that >> there's quite a bit of risk of not coming out with something usable at >> the >> end. >> >> -- David
I understand and share your concerns. English is a real problem, starting from phonetics to the scarceness of samples. I think the same about the necessity to allow phonetics, though we will need opinions on whether this is even an acceptable possibility in MuseScore. Tobias Platen wrote > For European languages eSpeak is the best one, but that will require > much more work. eSpeak can convert text to phonetic symbols for many > languages. How many eSpeak phonemes are there approximatively in English? Although I have thought about the possibility to make program to try and convert every phoneme to its CVVC equivalent, I get the feeling that this is a bad idea. There is simply no real equivalent, and users who get almost natural results out of it have good tricks to do so (play with either a vowel or a consonant sounds according to the song's speed, to the rhythm, to the consonants that are pronounced near each other. To make it the closest to how a human would say it. The most natural sound isn't the most obvious, and my level in English is insufficient to do such a thing). Even if one would go for doing the most obvious algorithm (provided it is possible), how much time would it need? I know that English support is quite a priority, as it is one of the most used languages. But it seems too risky. Would a project where the English support is an optional deliverable be worthy? I don't think it lacks priority, but it seems much more feasible to implement it over something already existent. Your inputs on a better approach that would make English more straight forward are very much welcome! -- View this message in context: http://dev-list.musescore.org/GSOC-2016-Regarding-the-Virtual-Singer-project-idea-tp7579698p7579741.html Sent from the MuseScore Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785351&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Mscore-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mscore-developer
