Pronunciation issues with Jenny Multilingual and Catalan voices

guillem leon 1 Reputation point
2022-10-31T15:17:17.51+00:00

Hello,

I have noticed a few pronunciation issues in Azure TTS, and was wondering what the best channel to report them would be. I will try to detail them below:

  • Jenny Multilingual: When speaking Spanish (Mexico), the letter Z in any position and C before E or I should produce the same phoneme as S. Instead, they currently produce a very short dental fricative-like sound.
  • Catalan voices: Post-clitic pronouns after verbs in infinitive form are not rendered properly when separated by hyphen, as required by Catalan orthography. For example, in cantar-la/cantar-ne/cantar-ho, the R is not pronounced. While this is correct when the verb is by itself, the R is pronounced as if there were no hyphen when in post-clitic form.
  • Catalan voices: Many short utterances produce a strange and unnatural upwards inflection at the end. Try "estiu" vs "estem a l'estiu", "hivern" vs "estem a l'hivern".
  • Catalan voices: Però is pronounced stressed in all positions. As far as I understand, però should never be stressed.

Thank you.

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  1. Dillon Silzer 57,831 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2022-10-31T15:32:09.457+00:00

    Hi @guillem leon

    I would recommend posting this on the Feedback portal for Azure TTS (Cognitive Services):

    Azure Cognitive Services

    https://feedback.azure.com/d365community/forum/09041fae-0b25-ec11-b6e6-000d3a4f0858

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