brailcom/speechd

Please implement phonetic spelling

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#896 opened on Mar 30, 2024

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. No. Describe the solution you'd like Some synthesisers in other languages than English, for example IBMTTS in Brazilian Portuguese, have a kind of bug that makes difficult to distinguish between some vowels when spelling. Thus, we need phonetic spelling, i.e. speaking alpha for a, bravo for b, charlie for c, etc. Some clients like Orca and Fenrir implement this feature theirselves, but Speechd-el for example doesn't. Thus, speech-dispatcher should have it too. Describe alternatives you've considered

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Examine the speech dispatcher codebase to understand how spelling is handled (e.g., the spd spell function). Identify where to integrate phonetic spelling tables (NATO phonetic alphabet) and how to make it configurable per language/synthesizer.
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