synsinger posted: " Instead of recording all the CV and VC options with diphthongs, I'm making close substitutions, while using the diphthong V. For example: EY made EH + IY AY high AA + IY OY boy AO + IY AW how AA + UX OW slow AH + UX UW crew UH + UX So: _sil_b" synSinger
Instead of recording all the CV and VC options with diphthongs, I'm making close substitutions, while using the diphthong V.
For example:
EY made EH + IY AY high AA + IY OY boy AO + IY AW how AA + UX OW slow AH + UX UW crew UH + UX
So:
_sil_b_oy oy oy_sil
would use the /oy/ on the vowel, but for the CV and VC portions could substitute:
sil_b_ao oy iy_sil
In theory, this should mean less recordings are needed with no real loss in quality.
The problem is that /ao/ seems to have two different sounds, depending on whether it's followed by an /r/ or not.
For example, "not" is /n ao t/, and "nor" is /n ao r/ :
"not" and "nor"
Simply put, these two vowels sound different. A lot different. To me, the /ao/ in"nor" sounds most similar to the initial part of /ow/, but with a bit more rounding.
What doesn't help is that I've got a very California accent. For example, my /aa/ ("pot") is very close to /ao/ ("talk").
I'm not quite sure what to do. But I suspect the solution will involve me paying more attention to how I make the /aa/ and /ao/ sounds.
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