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It’s certainly not easy. I approximate it (best descripion) by changing the one note to Spanish and using a Spanish phoneme set. I did this (https://youtu.be/xvPuSFyAnh0) just before Christmas, bit of a rush, so not perfect; my song cycle ‘Idylls’ is probably the best example, but I’d need to get it uploaded to YouTube and at 19 minutes in length that will take a while 
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Managed it, this is probably pushing Felicia to ‘her’ limits - and it’s not perfect from a pronunciation point of view, but I composed it for a Chinese soprano (albeit one based in London). Another consideration is that I, being from Cornwall and also a Romanian speaker, tend to slant my vowels in ways that don’t necessarily fit with preconceptions … but I listen to so much English spoken by non-native speakers that I tend to immitate them. In this cycle, the third song has a piano part that’s a concert in itself! https://youtu.be/_AZBf7cMQ4Q … worth remembering here that I had a live concert performance of this as my reference point, by the professional soprano for whom I wrote it.
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All right thanks for sharing but I had a quick scan through all of that and did not find the single instance where that sort of O was needed.
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And my surname Palmos. It always sounds like Palmohs. Do you have any vowels that are similar to these in those songs, I could not find any.
Was just working on something with loads of that. For ‘god’ (for example) I started with: Note → English; change phonemes from default ‘g aa d’ to ‘g ao d’. That got 90% of the way there. Then I tried: Note → Spanish; default phonemes ‘g o D’ pretty much nailed it. For ‘Palmos’, incidentally (assuming it to be of Greek origin), I’d do it totally with Spanish rather than English phonemes, because the vowels are purer, without turning everything into a diphthong. See the following: https://stuartbrownmusic.com/audio/Example3.wav For the first four words, pull the mouth opening right down as well as setting the phonemes to ‘ao’ in each case. ‘Palmos’ here is done in Spanish. (Voice is Weina II).
Thank you very entertaining 
When she says my name the pal part sounds very much like a Spanish person saying my name. I am not enough of an expert to tweak so many things just to get one vowel… I wish they would just record some alternatives in English English! Yep I am of Greek origin.
Thanks for your efforts and concern, all the best 
