Mispronunciation in Spanish with the "SH" leters

[Exink]

Hello there,

Well, it's my first time opening an issue for ESpeak-Ng, so let's see how it goes and if I'm doing it right.

I'd like to report that ESpeak-NG doesn't pronounce correctly the phonemes for the letters s h at the middle and at the end of words in Spanish. Maybe this is not quite a problem for everyday Spanish words, but if we want to read some foreign words (Fukushima, Satoshi, for example) the voice treats both letters like it where an s instead of an s h, so it reads Fukusima" instead of using the original pronunciation. The same thing happens in Korean all time, but maybe I should make a separate issue, please correct me if I'm wrong.

I know this can seem to be somewhat superflous, yet I wanted to talk about this anyways.

Thanks for reading and hopefully this can be fixed!

[eliassal]

Hello, can you please tell me how you tell this tool that the text file contains spanish phrases? I tried something like

espeak-ng --voices=es -f hello.txt

But it reads it in English pronunciation

[sukiletxe]

Try -ves instead of --voices=es

[jaacoppi]

The reason for this is that in the rules for spanish, the h is silent: dictsource/es_rules:102: h // silent

Is there a better rule that would work for both spanish and foreign words? Adding each foreign with with an h to dictsource/es_list is not a realistic option.

[Exink]

Hello,

In order to read aloud any text in Spanish using ESpeak-Ng, you can simply go to the command promt and type in espeak-ng -v es "Spanish Text" or espeak-ng -v es-419 for Latin-american Spanish. Not sure how to use Mbrola yet, but that's the way to go for Espeak.

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De: eliassal @.> Enviado: jueves, 19 de mayo de 2022 09:18 a. m. Para: espeak-ng/espeak-ng @.> CC: Exink @.>; Author @.> Asunto: Re: [espeak-ng/espeak-ng] Mispronunciation in Spanish with the "SH" leters (Issue #1189)

Hello, can you please tell me how you tell this tool that the text file contains spanish phrases? I tried something like

espeak-ng --voices=es -f hello.txt

But it reads it in English pronunciation

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[jolmg]

Is there a better rule that would work for both spanish and foreign words?

As a Spanish speaker myself, I don't think so. Having the 'h' be silent and sounding like 's' for the pair is correct for Spanish words like "deshacer".