Support for other English varieties

[trenslow]

Hello,

If I understand correctly, if you use Flite as the backend for English G2P, you get transcriptions in US English. How would one go about getting transcriptions for other varieties of English, e.g. Received Pronunciation or Australian English? I know that Festvox supports British and Scottish English, so could it in theory be used as the backend for English G2P?

For my use case, it's not super important that the vowels are precise, but the rhoticity distinction would be extremely useful.

Thanks!

[dohliam]

@trenslow You could try using the Received Pronunciation IPA database included in the ipa-dict project. Australian English would be great, but I'm not aware of any existing tools or databases under a free license.

[Blandon-Lc]

Is there something wrong with English now? The conversion process has been out of range！

[tenorable]

I'm not really a programmer. I am a singer, and this is a great package. Thanks. I would just like to echo @trenslow and request that other English dialects, particularly British English be added. Classical lyric diction in English uses more the British pronunciation than the American English. If there is a way to get the British, I would appreciate directions. Thanks so much. And, as an alum of CMU, so happy to see that contribution to this project!