Pronunciation conundrum

Synthesizer V Studio
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I don’t get many responses to my queries in this forum. As an obvious noobie, I guess that’s not too surprising. But I’ll try again:

I have tried all the phonemes that make sense from the Synthesizer V Studio Phoneme Reference (online). I cannot make SynthV pronounce correctly:

proposition
I tried pro (p r ax)-poz (p aa z)-ih-chun (ch ah n)

disposition
I tried dis (d ih s)-poz (p aa z)-ih-chun(ch ah n)

curse
I tried kurs (k er s)

None of these result in anything much like the actual pronunciations.

Is there an updated Reference perhaps?
Or can anyone offer any suggestions?

Thanks

Chuck Puckett
www.puckettpublishing.com
“I don’t want to steal the show… I only want to borrow it for a while.”

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Try (p r ah) (p uh) (z eh) (shun); (dis) (p oh) (z eh) (shun); (kh er s).

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I do not do English lyrics but try to tweak Synth V to pronounce German instead. However, I think I get better results by following a C-V (or C-V-C) syllable logic, which should match the Japanese language structure more closely. I figure the whole engine might be built upon this.

So (p r ao) (p ow) (z ih) (sh ax n uh)
I always add a short extra vocal at the end (duration 20 to 40 %), uh is usually fine, to get a voiced vocal, which in Asian languages would certainly be regarded as a new syllable. :slight_smile:

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as far as I know EN voices use a modified version of the cmu pronouncing dictionary (specifically the 0.7b version)

though I noticed that it’s… often wrong ^^;

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I think that the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary eventually replaced by a trained neural network, but I could be wrong.

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Among all these replies I found the answer to my problem.

THANKS!!