Accessing unilex-rpx lexicon

[Blythe H]

Is it possible to access the unilex-rpx/unisyn dictionary and change the pronunciation of a word already present in the dictionary?

[Simon]

You shouldn’t edit the main dictionary, but you can override a pronunciation using the command lex.add.entry in the addendum which is stored in my_lexicon.scm in the assignment.

[Blythe H]

This has changed the labelling of the words but festival still uses the original pronunciation during synthesis (and shows this with lex.lookup). Is there a way to make it so that it uses the pronunciation given in my_lexicon.scm?

[Simon]

You just need to load my_lexicon.scm whenever you start Festival for performing synthesis. Simply give it as an argument to Festival:

bash$ festival my_lexicon.scm

which tells Festival to load (and execute) the contents of my_lexicon.scm immediately after it starts.

[Sarah N]

To use my lexicon when running my voice in festival, I ended up using the following command:

bash$ festival $MBDIR/scm/build_unitsel.scm my_lexicon.scm

Because of the (setup_phone_and_lexicon … ) command at the top of our lexicon.scm files, the MDBIR tells festival where to find and run this command.

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