Two syllables dropped speaking Dutch "naburige"

[Jan Claeys]

On Tue, 2018-07-17 at 07:53 +0200, Frans-Willem Post wrote:
> For some time I have been a user of the Orca screen reader. This week
> I came across an awkward pronunciation bug (I think it's a bug). I
> ruled out Orca by stopping it's speech and going command line.
> 
> When I execute the following command, the second and third syllable
> are not spoken. The first and last, however, are. It sounds like "na-
> e".
> 
> $ spd-say -l nl "naburige"
> 
> I'm writing a blog article about a certain puzzle solving program,
> which works by using referenced neighboring ("naburige" in Dutch)
> puzzle cells. That's how I came across this bug.
> 
> Can someone help me get this to work? Can I help improve the Dutch
> pronunciation of speech-dispatcher?

Assuming you are using 'espeak-ng' as the backend (which is the
default, it seems), this is the version in Ubuntu 18.04:

   $ espeak --version
   eSpeak NG text-to-speech: 1.49.2  Data at:
   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/espeak-ng-data


It seems like there is en error in how "naburige" is translated into
phonemes (but it works correctly for "naburig"):

   $ espeak -v nl -x "naburige"
    n'a:@
   $ espeak -v nl -x "naburig"
    n,a:b'yr at x


Maybe this is useful for someone who has experience with how this
works:

   $ espeak -vnl -X "naburige"
   Translate 'naburige'
     1     n        [n]
    59     _) na (C@@P2p  [n'a:]
    59     _) na (C at N [n'a:]

     1     b        [b]

     1     u        [y]

     1     r        [r]
    41     A) r (A  [r]

    83     @) ige (_S1  address@hidden
     1     i        [i]

   Translate 'naburig'
     1     n        [n]
    59     _) na (C@@P2p  [n'a:]

    n'a:@
   $ espeak -vnl -X "naburig"
   Translate 'naburig'
     1     n        [n]
    59     _) na (C@@P2p  [n'a:]
    59     _) na (C at N [n'a:]

     1     b        [b]

     1     u        [y]

     1     r        [r]
    41     A) r (A  [r]

    62     @) ig (_S2dq  [, at Q]
     1     i        [i]
    34     i (CK    [I]

    n,a:b'yr at x


-- 
Jan Claeys