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From: asrgf@wombat.newcastle.edu.au
Subject: Re: Allophones
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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 12:04:23 GMT

In article <1n22cb$bcu@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, fiji@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Ben Bennett) writes:
> 
> 	If I remember correctly, someone posted some information on
> chips to drive a voice output based upon allophones.  I have a vague grasp 
> of the concept but I am looking for more information on the subject.
> 	If anyone knows the full list of all the allophones I would
> appreciate that too.
> 		Many thanks,
> 			Ben Bennett.
> -- 
> 
> 	This was the opinion of my hands and not necessarily the remainder
>  of my body.  The remainder of Ben Bennett (Fiji@wpi.edu) can not be held 
>  responsible for anything typed above.
 There is no diffinitive "list" of all the allophones since they vary depending
on your "accent" or "dialect". For example Australian English "allophones" are
quite distinct compared to any of the Americian regional set of "allophones".
Check out any book on "Phonetics" in you Library.
Various speech synthesiser chips have "allophone" sets in a particular
dialect of English. Check out the "Votrax" set and the "Naval Algorithm" in
the IEEE Transactions in Signal Processing.
Regards Ray.


