How to make meSpeak.js read special characters?

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I would like to use mespeak.js script (based on speak.js based on espeak) for text-to-speech - which has a czech voice file -, but for some reason it skips czech special characters like ě, š, č, ř, ž and reads only the rest.

As espeak on Windows reads them correctly, I tried to compile a new voice file (cs.json), but the problem persists.

Thanks!

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 24 '15 at 21:59

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I don't know what those characters sound like, but your best bet might be to try to approximate the closest english sounding character combination.

For instance, if š sounds like sh in English (not saying it does) then just replace all instances of š with sh.

answered Jul 24 '15 at 21:59

ajacian81

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yes I could do this before sending them to the script, but I would find it more clean to edit the script - in fact they sound differently on different occasions, which is already taken into account in the dictionary and works locally with espeak. – Fanky Jul 24 '15 at 22:28

Fanky · Answer 2 · 2015-07-30T07:41:23.383

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It may be a better way to use this e-speak modification instead of mespeak: http://eeejay.github.io/espeak/emscripten/espeak.html (demo)

edited Jul 30 '15 at 07:41

answered Jul 30 '15 at 07:18

Fanky

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How to make meSpeak.js read special characters?

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