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LibreFaso (librefaso@hostux.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Dec-2021 20:14:19 UTC LibreFaso
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- wizzwizz4
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You haven't found anything in the #commonvoice database ?

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- wizzwizz4 (wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-Dec-2021 20:14:20 UTC wizzwizz4
  
  I'm trying to write some speech processing code, but my microphone doesn't work so I can't get speech samples.
  Could some people record themselves saying a mid central unrounded vowel (schwa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_central_vowel), then a test phrase or two? (Preferably raw / WAV / FLAC straight-from-the-microphone-driver rather than MP3-compressed, but it doesn't hugely matter.)
  Boosts appreciated.
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  1. Mid central vowel
    
    The mid central vowel (also known as schwa) is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ə⟩, a rotated lowercase letter e. While the Handbook of the International Phonetic Association does not define the roundedness of [ə], it is more often unrounded than rounded. The phonetician Jane Setter describes the pronunciation of the unrounded variant as follows: "[ə] is a sound which can be produced by basically relaxing the articulators in the oral cavity and vocalising." To produce the rounded variant, all that needs to be done in addition to that is to round the lips. Afrikaans contrasts unrounded and rounded mid central vowels; the latter is usually transcribed with ⟨œ⟩. The contrast is not very stable, and many speakers use an unrounded vowel in...

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