AT&T UK English Phoneme Probem

[PHenry1026]

Greetings:

Many phoneme combinations do not work with AT&T UK English while they work with AT&T US English: For example, the following regex/phoneme works with AT&T US English but not AT&T UK English:

(?#Martí)(?m)(?<=^|\s)['"‘“\p{Pi}\p{Ps}\p{Pd}]{0,2}Martí(?=[^'’‘´a-z])(?=[’”\p{Po}\p{Pe}\p{Pf}]{0,2}(?:\s|$))

m aa r - t iy 1

The problem can be seen by testing the phoneme before usage.

However, while not correct or appropriate, if the phoneme is changed to something like m aa r - th iy 1 or m aa r - b iy 1, AT&T UK English will pronounce the phoneme problem free. This is just one example, but I have noticed many phoneme problems like this with AT&T UK English.

Percy
RC Dictionaries

[PHenry1026]

It appears that you have left out the "t" phoneme from the AT&T UK English Phoneme set; therefore any pronunciation that uses a "t" phoneme in AT&T UK English will not be pronounced properly and will cause a pronunciation error.

Percy
RC Dictionaries

[Jim Bretti]

Hi Percy,

When I try using the "t" phoneme with AT&T Audrey, I hear some sort of garbage pronounced when the word containing the phonemes is spoken. The voice says something like "back quote left bracket", along with some other text. Is that what you're hearing?

[PHenry1026]

Hi Jim,

That is correct; I first observed this problem about January of this year (2011), but it took me a long time to figure out that it was caused by the "t" phoneme.

Percy
RC Dictionaries

[Jim Bretti]

I've seen this before with non-English AT&T voices, but never realized the problem was related to specific phonemes. Don't know what would cause this, it could be a problem with AT&T voices. I'll do some more checking and post here if I find anything.