Dictionaries & phonesets used by Festival

[Alicia Z]

I would like to have a look at all the phones included in the dictionary and how they are annotated. Is there a way to have Festival print out the dictionary that it is using? Are dictionaries accent-specific?

[Simon]

Dictionaries are specific to the voice that you are using. The phoneset used is determined by the dictionary. You can use the lex.lookup_all function to query the dictionary one word at a time (without out-of-vocabulary words being passed to the letter-to-sound model).

The dictionary used in the voice_cstr_edi_awb_arctic_multisyn voice is the Edinburgh accent from Unisyn.

To see the phoneset, refer to the symbol tables in Appendix III of the manual (attached), in the “Edinburgh” column.

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