[hts-users:00697] Re: hts_engine: Phoneme Symbols

[Alexis Moinet <alexis.moinet@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Heiga ZEN (Byung Ha CHUN) wrote :
> > And is there any other symbol I have to avoid?
>
> You should avoid '*' and '?' because they are used as special 
> characters for pattern matching.
> In HTK, '%' is also used as a special character, so it should also be 
> avoided.

we had problems with @ too, moreover the "~" (tilde) (which is SAMPA 
symbol for nasalized phonemes) also causes problems and it looks like 
you cannot use numbers (e.g. 2 and 9 are X-SAMPA symbols in french but 
we couldn't use them as well)

Alexis