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#1
Hello!

I've been a lurker for going on five years, and it's high time I actually contributed something.

Working on a screen-reader/TTS script to read articles off while I'm on walks (see screenshot). Pretty niche as it requires Termux to use on mobile but it did require me to build up a pretty comprehensive library of pronunciations, which might conceivably be useful to someone Tongue 

Looking forward to making my contribution,
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Wow this looks fantastic! What makes the narrating software specific to OA ? The pronunciation library?
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#3
Welcome to OA!

Cool concept! I look forward to learning more about it as it develops. Smile

Todd
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(02-20-2024, 09:21 AM)Worldtree Wrote: Wow this looks fantastic! What makes the narrating software specific to OA ? The pronunciation library?

Yes, that's a list of about 1500 words that espeak, the TTS software I'm using, butchers when it tries to pronounce. Many of them are OA-specific, like telling it to say "mo-do-SOPH-ont" instead of "muh-DOS-uh-phont", which it says by default. Some are just normal words it doesn't know how to pronounce, like "theremin". Espeak is a pretty primitive piece of software but it's fairly lightweight and has a system for specifying phonetic pronunciation using something similar to the International Phonetic Alphabet. The program currently just does a basic search-and-replace with the listed terms to replace them with the corrected phonetic transliteration.

It's still very much a hacky little personal project but I thought y'all might appreciate seeing it.
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#5
Welcome and cool idea!
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