Alexander Rudnicky

I just saw this comment. Apologies for not seeing it earlier. cmudict has various inconsistencies, some of which make sense. For example, these entries seem to include dialectal differences. ```...

A good question. Whether you use AA0 depends on how your synthesizer deals with stress. For example, an unstressed vowel might be shortened or centralized (moved towards AX in phonetic...

I would agree that two '1' marks seem odd but it does happen for some words, e.g. encyclopedia /ɪnˈsaɪkləˈpiːdiə/. It's mostly found in compound words; arguably 'engineering' is also a...

It is the case that cmudict was created manually and that multiple people worked on it over time. So inconsistencies are inevitable. In the case of INDUCTEE, we might have...

cmudict was developed primarily for use in speech recognition. At some point it had ~50 symbols (e.g. aspirated stops like TH, DH; flaps, DX; AX/AH, and other variants. It was...

The apostrophes were there for a reason. cmudict was used in ASR to get pronunciations for building a lexicon. One can start dropping things, but it's a bad idea: tidying...

Danilo, I believe that iconv is doing the right thing, at least for me (using a git shell): $ cat /proc/version MINGW64_NT-10.0-19043 version 3.1.7-340.x86_64 ***@***.***) (gcc version 10.2.0 (GCC) )...

Apologies for the late response. Your email ended up in my spam folder. You should cite by the url from which you got it. gatherer really ought to be a...