[hts-users:00698] Re: hts_engine: Phoneme Symbols

["Heiga ZEN (Byung Ha CHUN)" <zen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Alexis Moinet wrote (2007/05/31 16:15):

> > > 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)

Is this a bug of hts_engine or Linux/Windows file system restriction?
I think "~" is prepared to represent home directory on Linux.

Regards,

Heiga ZEN (Byung Ha CHUN)

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