# Lithuanian letter names that espeak-ng gets wrong when a word is spelled out. # # letter IPA word prefixes after which it is an abbreviation, not a # letter (comma-separated, optional). Lines starting with # are ignored. # # el: espeak-ng's Lithuanian dictionary expands "el" to "elektroninis", because # "el." is the common abbreviation for "el. paštas" (e-mail). Right for the # abbreviation, wrong for the letter name of L, which appears in every # spelled-out abbreviation containing it (LRT, MTL, LT). A trailing period # cannot tell the two apart (at the end of a sentence the letter carries # one too), so the abbreviation is recognized by the word that follows. # The IPA matches the corpus' own inventory: espeak renders a final # Lithuanian "l" as the syllabic l̩ used throughout the training data. # i: lengthened because as the last letter of a spelled-out abbreviation # ("VMI") a short i is simply not heard; in the corpus the letter name # appears mid-sentence, where it is short. # z, ž: espeak-ng gives both the same name, ʑˈee, so the initials of "Zigmas" # and "Žygimantas" are read identically. It also names Š as "eš" (ˋeʃ), # the pattern of ef/el/em/en/er/es, but Lithuanian Š is "šė". The forms # below are the corpus' own: žė ʒˈee (5), zė zˈee (2), šė ɕˈee (1), # against vė vʲˈee (44) and bė bʲˈee (22), which espeak already gets right. # Y is left alone on the same grounds: espeak reads it "igrek" and so does # the corpus (ˌiːɡrʲek), even though the school name is "i ilgoji". el ˈel̩ pašt i ˈiː z zˈee ž ʒˈee š ɕˈee