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About the French pronunciation of "92", there is an alternative from Switzerland and Belgium: "nonante-deux". Basically, you can replace "soixante-dix" and "qua
by yoha 13y ago
About the French pronunciation of "92", there is an alternative from Switzerland and Belgium: "nonante-deux". Basically, you can replace "soixante-dix" and "quatrevingt-dix" by "septante" [1] and "nonante" [2]. It is not widely used or even known in France, but it does exist.
On the other hand, there is still this "quatre-vingt" thing that made "octante" [3] disappear. It sounds complicated even to French people but they are used to it.
[1] https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/septante https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/septante
[2] https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonante https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonante
[3] https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/octante https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/octante
- bnegreve 13y agoThe fact that you can "factorize" 92 into 4 x 20 + 12, means you need less samples, not more. Of course it also requires more and specialized logic in your program, which is the real problem.
- yoha 13y agoUnfortunately, "quatrevingt" won't sound exactly like "quatre" followed by "vingt" (in "quatrevingt", you will make the sound for the "e" very clear while muting it in "quatre"). Of course, you could just use more developed algorithms to connect words but then why not just use a voice synthesizer base only on recorded syllables?
- bnegreve 13y agoSo you need the same number of samples whether you use 80+12 or 90+2.