Korean Tweaks ― A script for correcting Korean pronunciation

Synthesizer V Studio
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Kinda rude. In what means it is “illegal”?

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isn’t it… reverse engineering?

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Not at all. It just borrows Mandarin phonemes and English phonemes.

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but how did you get to how SynthV stores note phonemes? This is reverse engineering, which is illegal. The legal way is to make a user dictionary.

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The phoneme inventories of SynthV are available in public: here.

EDIT: If you wondered how this script manipulates notes, refer to the scripting manual.

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the inventory I know, but i mean how they are stored as variables in data.

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Again, refer to the scripting manual. Basically, user scripts have access to manipulation of notes and stuffs.

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Thanks :slight_smile: I think I’ll do it with French phonemes (when they will be released) for Proto-Indo-European support (I’m actually learning the language).

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Just added an option for the North Korean pronunication, specifically for the de-palatalized ㅈ/ㅉ/ㅊ.

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North Korean speech also pronounces ㅓ like /ɔ/.

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maybe the Mandarin uA or English ao would work

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Thanks! Updated accordingly.

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how to access the monophthongal ㅚ sound? I used your script and I get a diphthong that sounds like the we sound in “wet”

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This script could let ㅚ be a monophthong in older versions, by giving the Mandarin phoneme y and slightly adjusting the Mouth Opening parameter up. However, I couldn’t target the specific duration of the said phoneme in the automation because there was no way to do that. The best I could do was to target the duration of the entire note, but I didn’t like the result, considered this as a bug, and reverted it.

Note that the French language is coming to SynthV. Upon then, I would employ its /ø/ phoneme for the purpose.

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I’ve noticed that using Mandarin phonemes, namely ue and yE, can fix the issue of the pronunciation of ㅚ, and updated the script accordingly.

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Due to the recent version of SynthV (2.2.1) introducing bugs to the allotting of Korean phonemes, as an emergency patch, I’ve added a new option to force inserting phonemes.

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In case anyone has missed, I prepared an update to this script, to deal with the SynthV version 2.3.0tp1. It’s available in the dev branch of the linked GitHub repository:

This branch shall be merged to main upon the final release of SynthV version 2.3.0.

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