Basic Vowel Question

rjt · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 3:43 am Post subject: Basic Vowel Question

I am pretty new to using Vocaloid. I just started using Miriam. It seems that figuring out phoenic words instead of how they are spelled is going to be an important task. For now, I can certainly use some "hard" vowel sounds..... in other words an O that is a pure O and an A which is pure A not AH or something. I looked in the phoneme chart, but did not see how to produce them. Any thoughts or tips would be most appreciated. At the moment, I am about half-way through the manual.

TIA

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andromeda · Cool User Joined: Feb 27, 2004 Posts: 188 Location: UK

I'm not sure what you mean by a hard or pure vowel sound. Can you give an example of the word you are working with? Have you looked at the phoneme tutorial on this site?
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Chris

Administrator · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 8:53 am Post subject:

I'm not sure what you mean either. Do you mean the O sound in 'show' and the A sound in 'bay'?

gray · Cool User Joined: Feb 27, 2004 Posts: 304 Location: Texas

Just put in a word that rhymes with the A or O. After the phoneme transfer, Delete the undesired part of the phoneme. ex, for the word a (long a) enter ray, after phoneme transfer, delete the r from the phoneme. There is also a phoneme chart available here in printout form. very handy.
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rjt · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 11:31 pm Post subject:

Yes bay and show.... are right. I did look at the phoneme chart and think I have a lot to learn about crafting the correct pronunciation. I have a few thoughts... like learning to use the pronunciation portion of a dictionary etc. Unfortunately, I am typing in a Latin phrase so am not all that sure of the pronunciation... but I'm working on it.

Thanks for the help.

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gray · Cool User Joined: Feb 27, 2004 Posts: 304 Location: Texas

I can't help you there, though I do know a few Spanish cuss words. heh
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rjt · Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 12:02 am Post subject:

I had two years of Greek in college, but I am such a language idiot it didn't stick. Think I have a lot of work to do, but it should be fun. I wrote a song using a Gregorian Chant. Am going to try to recreate it (more or less) with Miriam.

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Administrator · Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 8:24 am Post subject:

for O and A, try using '@U' and 'eI'.

rjt · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 1:33 am Post subject:

Thanks

rjt · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:17 am Post subject:

Just spent about an hour on line locating a Latin dictionary that also had phonetics. Then punching in the words.... all but letitie were there. I also have the original track to work from. Sooooo, will slowly start plugging away. Thanks for the help!