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eSpeak-ng says "Chinese letter" or "Japanese letter" for Japanese characters it doesn't support, causing quality of dtw alignment and some synthesis engines to be degraded for Japanese #81

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rotemdan opened this issue Dec 6, 2024 · 0 comments
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eSpeak-ng says "Chinese letter" or "Japanese letter" for Japanese characters it doesn't support, causing quality of dtw alignment and some synthesis engines to be degraded for Japanese #81

rotemdan opened this issue Dec 6, 2024 · 0 comments
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alignment Issue related to forced alignment bug Something isn't working external Issues that are related to external sources synthesis Issue related to speech synthesis

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rotemdan commented Dec 6, 2024

The issue has been in espeak-ng for a very long time and cannot be worked around. espeak-ng doesn't support Kanji characters, and possibly other characters used in Japanese.

To align Japanese text, the Whisper-based alignment engines (whisper and dtw-ra) are still usable.
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@rotemdan rotemdan changed the title eSpeak-ng says "Chinese letter" or "Japanese letter" for Japanese characters it doesn't support, causing quality dtw alignment and some synthesis engines to be degraded for Japanese eSpeak-ng says "Chinese letter" or "Japanese letter" for Japanese characters it doesn't support, causing quality of dtw alignment and some synthesis engines to be degraded for Japanese Dec 6, 2024
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