Voiced labial–palatal approximant (ɥ) missing in French IPA translation

[MaloOLIVIER]

The voiced labial–palatal approximant (ɥ) is missing from the IPA translation.

The command line espeak-ng -v fr --ipa "huit huître suis suie huile nuit nuage truie truite puis suite poursuivi pluie fuir suer" outputs the following result : yˈit yˈitʁ syˈi syˈi yˈil nyˈi nyˈaʒ tʁyˈi tʁyˈit pyˈi syˈit puʁsyivˈi plyˈi fyˈiʁ syˈe

When it is expected : ɥˈit ɥˈitʁ sɥˈi sɥˈi ɥˈil nɥˈi nɥˈaʒ tʁɥˈi tʁɥˈit pɥˈi sɥˈit puʁsɥivˈi plɥˈi fɥˈiʁ sɥˈe

Using eSpeak NG text-to-speech: 1.51 on Ubuntu 24.04.2 - Python 3.12.9

[fabiolimace]

I think the ɥ symbol can be added to phsource/ph_french file. After editing the file this is the output I get:

ɥˈit ɥˈitʁ sɥˈi sɥˈi ɥˈil nɥˈi nyˈaʒ tʁɥˈi tʁɥˈit pɥˈi sɥˈit puʁsɥivˈi plɥˈi fɥˈiʁ syˈe

Note that the last word didn't work.

This is the diff that worked for me:

git diff ph_french 
diff --git a/phsource/ph_french b/phsource/ph_french
index 509ebc97..89586b26 100644
--- a/phsource/ph_french
+++ b/phsource/ph_french
@@ -465,6 +465,7 @@ phoneme y
   vwl starttype #u  endtype #u
 
   IF nextPhW(E~) OR nextPhW(#i) THEN
+    ipa ɥ
     length 110
     FMT(vowel/y, 80)
   ENDIF

After making this change, you have to recompile the phonemes:

cd git/espeak-ng/
sudo espeak-ng --compile-phoneme=phsource;

The permalink to the exact line is this one: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/blob/a4ca101c99de35345f89df58195b2159748b7092/phsource/ph_french#L468

[MaloOLIVIER]

Hi everyone, I provided a fix for this issue with pull request #2280

Can someone review it?