Can't get PLS Dictionary for Ivona reader to work
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 2:19 pm
Sorry, I tried replying to the existing post about Ivona voices Excellent! But the reply wouldnt stick.
So I'm trying with a new topic.
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Hello all,
I'm a long time Ivona fan and also sometime fighting with respelling words to get correct pronunciation. I came on the IPA phoneme pronunciations yesterday after finally deciding to put some time into finally finding out better solutions.
I'm loving the use of IPA and I got your free PLS files here online.
Only I have not had success whatsoever to get the file to work. I am using Ivona reader and I have installed the file as described. I puzzled at how tomotello got this to work because as far as I see the PLS file on site uses a different syntax than Ivona extension expects. I did some searching and the main difference I see is:
Readtaclearly: <phoneme>hˈɪz</phoneme>
Ivona: <phoneme alphabet="ipa" ph="'/h?z/"></phoneme>
The extension ph= seems to be particular to Ivona as other PLS lines I have seen in other forums are missing that also.
Thus on using any third party PLS file until now I have only gotten silence as I assume the file is being parsed correctly.
Sorry if the use of this file should be obvious and I'm adding overkill. But if I insert the above lines into Invona reader and enable SAPI/SSML tags the Ivona: line works fine. The readatclearly line (or any other I have found) does not.
I'm very interested to get this working as I will immediately purchase your lexicon files on succes.
Thanks for any help.
Luke70
So I'm trying with a new topic.
*
Hello all,
I'm a long time Ivona fan and also sometime fighting with respelling words to get correct pronunciation. I came on the IPA phoneme pronunciations yesterday after finally deciding to put some time into finally finding out better solutions.
I'm loving the use of IPA and I got your free PLS files here online.
Only I have not had success whatsoever to get the file to work. I am using Ivona reader and I have installed the file as described. I puzzled at how tomotello got this to work because as far as I see the PLS file on site uses a different syntax than Ivona extension expects. I did some searching and the main difference I see is:
Readtaclearly: <phoneme>hˈɪz</phoneme>
Ivona: <phoneme alphabet="ipa" ph="'/h?z/"></phoneme>
The extension ph= seems to be particular to Ivona as other PLS lines I have seen in other forums are missing that also.
Thus on using any third party PLS file until now I have only gotten silence as I assume the file is being parsed correctly.
Sorry if the use of this file should be obvious and I'm adding overkill. But if I insert the above lines into Invona reader and enable SAPI/SSML tags the Ivona: line works fine. The readatclearly line (or any other I have found) does not.
I'm very interested to get this working as I will immediately purchase your lexicon files on succes.
Thanks for any help.
Luke70