Is Dreamtonics secretly preparing to officially support British English?

Synthesizer V Studio
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I’ve just noticed that there are new English phonemes in the SynthV version 2.3.0tp1, namely ea, ia, and ua, and they all are marked as diphthongs. Though currently they sound nothing different than eh, ih, and uh, I presume that ea is the British SQUARE vowel, ia is the British NEAR vowel, and ua is the British CURE vowel.

Does this mean Dreamtonics is secretly preparing to officially support British English? I’m very looking forward to.

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Can I tell you something? Diphthongs are a very common and essential part of the Italian language. Give me hope for this "secret preparation”…

Maybe it’s a false alarm on my part. I don’t know if it makes sense, but it’s still a hope.

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??? HOW??? HOW DID YOU NOTICE THAT???

Also by experimenting I found oh for English, as well as { from Portuguese. Is there a list of all phonemes?

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Does Italian have diphthongs roughly equivalent to SQUARE, NEAR, and CURE?

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Also the deleted phonemes tw and dw are now resurrected, as well as ~ and _~ suffixes for any phoneme in any language

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Navigate into C:\Program Files\Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro\clf-data, provided that you’re on Windows. You’ll find files containing the “official” phonemes and dictionaries, and the one for English phonemes is english-arpabet-phones.txt.

Also, thanks for noticing the oh vowel. It must be the British THOUGHT vowel.

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I don’t know what you’re talking about.

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Care to tell what part you don’t understand?

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That they’re gonna release British English support pronunciation.

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It’s only a speculation based on the said file containing new phonemes.

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U+0060 ` GRAVE ACCENT is replaced with U+0027 ’ APOSTROPHE
U+00AA ª FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR is replaced with U+0061 a LATIN SMALL LETTER A
U+00BA º MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR is replaced with U+006F o LATIN SMALL LETTER O
U+00B4 ´ ACUTE ACCENT is replaced with a space character followed by U+0301 ◌́ COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT
U+00A8 ¨ DIAERESIS is replaced with a space character followed by U+0308 ◌̈ COMBINING DIAERESIS

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Isn’t it the LOT vowel (as distinct from PALM)?
THOUGHT is ao

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In American English:

  • TRAP and BATH are ae.
  • PALM and LOT are aa.
  • CLOTH and THOUGHT are ao.

In British English:

  • TRAP is ae.
  • BATH and PALM are aa.
  • LOT and CLOTH are ao.
  • So we can speculate oh to be THOUGHT.
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OK then… I thought that BrE will match the American ARPABET, meaning that THOUGHT would be ao and LOT oh (as it is conventionally done in DiffSinger)

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