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
(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.
