How to do British English in SynthV2?

[Casualfanboy16]

Hello! I have been thinking lately that I wanna try experimenting more with phonemes to try and give my voicebanks a British English accent, but am unsure where I could start with this. I’m not entirely familiar with how to get it sounding that way though. Are there any good resources I could use to get better at this, especially on the phonetic side of things because I’m kinda lost. Thought it’d be cool to give Iroha or Oscar a British accent and wanted to see how to do it.

[ZLY_CZLOWIEK]

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[JonR]

I’m a new user and just experimenting with this myself. I don’t have any resources (no complete user dictionaries seem to be available), and working word by word at the moment, using the Liam voice.

As a few tips for getting more British English accents (tweaking the phonemes above the notes):

1. the long “i” vowel (as in “eye”, “fly” ”ride”) etc. Add “ih” or “iy” after the default “ay” (space between). The added phoneme needs shortening in the Phoneme Timing panel to be most effective. I.e. both “r ay ih d” and “r ay iy d” sound good for “ride”, if you shorten the “ih” or “iy”.)
2. the short “o” as in “got”, “not”, etc. “ao” is pretty close, but also try the Spanish “o” (select the word-note and choose Spanish from the Languages dropdown). It sounds good provided the note is short. When long, it’s more like long “aw” sound as in “dawn”. I.e, the three Spanish phonemes “d o n” sound closer to British English “dawn” than the American sounding “d ao n”.
3. For words ending in “er” like “ladder” or “under”, use “ax” in place of “er”.
4. For “where”, “air”, etc, just use “eh” (delete the following “r”)
5. For “t” or “tt” in the middle of a word “t” is more British than the American “dx”.

For words you use often, they can be added to the Dictionary. Slightly confusing instructions in the manual, because you have to create a New dictionary, which will contain your changed words. That will then be your “Current Dictionary” which inherits the rest of the default dictionary. (I think I have that right…)

As I say, this is all just working word by word atm, I don’t know a way of stipulating how a specific vowel should always be pronounced, in any word.

[Mechie]

The following might help slightly in how dictionaries can be used:-

Dictionaries For Newbies

IMO, SynthV help w.r.t. Dictionaries is not very helpful. Or perhaps it assumes a level of sophistication and familiarity I do not possess. So I have some questions: I created a dictionary but when I tried to use it on a SynthV project, it ignored it. Perhaps it was badly created, but there’s not a lot of guidance If I have a hyphenated word, do I include the hyphens in the word, or what? Frinstance, the word never. Do I enter it “never” or “ne-ver”? While on that, “never” in particular drives…

Remember that your cusom dictionary only replaces the words you specify, and unfortunately, any capitalisation matters (“Test” is not the same as “test”), all others revert to the program’s default dictionary, not copied in.