Festival lexicon

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- February 21, 2016 at 10:24 #2621
  Xinran S
  Student
  when I run the lex.lookup, all the POS of words are “nil”.
- February 21, 2016 at 10:28 #2623
  Simon
  Professor
  That is the expected behaviour for any words that are not in the lexicon: it is not easy to predict the POS of a single unknown word taken out of context, so Festival does not attempt to do that.
- February 21, 2016 at 11:11 #2624
  Simon
  Professor
  The POS will also be nil for words where the pronunciation does not depend on POS. That will actually be the case for most words. Try looking up a spelling that has two possible pronunciations, differentiated by POS, such as “present”. Use the lex.lookup_all function to retrieve all entries.
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