Re: shirt in Hindi

Allan Adler wrote:
>
> Allan Adler <ara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > I can't find the German accent program now but I've seen it.
>
> I asked about it on an emacs newsgroup and was directed to the following
> site:
> http://www.dystance.net/software/talkfilters/
> I've downloaded it and will play with it later. They have filters that will
> imitate a number of accents. The German accent is called krout (I know...).
> If one can do it for English, I don't see any reason one can't do it for other
> languages. For example, I vaguely recall that some Attic Greek plays had
> characters whose accents were deliberately imitated. Maybe one can put that
> in overdrive. Also, I remember that when I was in Trento in Italy, I was
> getting pizza with some Italian friends. After the waitress left, they
> started laughing at her accent, which sounded no different to me than theirs
> did. They explained to me that she pronounced "signorina" with doubling of the
> gn, which indicated that she was Bolognese. A talk filter ought to be able to
> double a gn.
>
> I guess the first step is to find out what the source code of this software
> looks like.

Wouldn't the first step be to find out what the software is trying to
do, i.e., to learn the differences between Standard English and Standard
German pronunciation, or between Tuscan and Bolognese pronunciation?

Jeez.
> --
> Ignorantly,
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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