Re: Transscripting issues

Yuri Chornoivan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.internationalization
Organization S.P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics
Message-ID <[email protected]>
субота, 16 вересня 2017 р. 16:41:05 EEST Zoltan Hoppar написано:
> Hi Yuri,
> 
> Thanks your response, I try to be more precise. Yes, IPA transscript would
> be a help, but I currently am talking about arabic written text that need
> to be converted into latin letters. I have the table with the correct latin
> phonetic pairs, and I would like to reach that when I feed in the arabic
> text some program does the conversion for me. The main issue here is that I
> need to make/edit a sort of 3 column dictionary and I would like to spare
> some extra phonetic typing.... Libreoffice seems to be unusable for this,
> but sort of ibus typing booster support would be great. Yet sadly, there is
> seems to be that no support for any kind of arabic text, so converting -
> making a phonetic transscript based on predefined letter pairs seems to me
> impossible. But, maybe I can define m17n module somehow, so when I enter
> the word it makes for me that transscript in other column ???? I wish, but
> no idea that is possible or not.
> 
> Zoltan

There is an Arabic espeak voice.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/arabic-espeak/files/

After its installation:

$ espeak -v arabic -x -q "مرحبا بالعالم"
 mrHb bilE'a:lam

The rest can be scripted, I think. Not sure about the quality though...

Best regards,
Yuri
> 
> 2017-09-16 15:13 GMT+02:00 Yuri Chornoivan <[email protected]>:
> > субота, 16 вересня 2017 р. 15:42:45 EEST Zoltan Hoppar написано:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > I have received an translation task, where we creating an expression
> > > dictionary, but for pronouncing I need to create a transscription of the
> > > words. The issue is that I have the pronounciation pairs, but for easier
> > > transscribe would be an amazing help if I could feed into an program
> > > that
> > > does this for me.
> > > 
> > > Any idea what kind of app can do this?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Zoltan
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > If I understand it right, then espeak with "-q --ipa" can do this for the
> > supported languages. Or this can be done with dictd (stardict/goldendict)
> > +
> > CMU American English spelling [1] can do this for English...
> > 
> > Sorry if I get it wrong.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Yuri
> > 
> > [1] http://download.huzheng.org/dict.org/
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