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I am using Aldebaran/Softbank Robotics Pepper with Choregraphe software. There are some loan words in my dialogs. When Pepper say these words they often don't sound natural.

e.g. the german word Demenz (eng: dementia) The first e is to long. I imagine some synax like that De[0.5]menz or phonetic transcription [deˈmɛnʦ].

Is this possible?

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  • $\begingroup$ what doesloan wordsmean? $\endgroup$
    – jsotola
    Mar 8, 2018 at 19:27
  • $\begingroup$ @jsotola Is "foreign word" a better translation? I mean words used by experts not "normal" people. $\endgroup$
    – buhtz
    Mar 8, 2018 at 21:04
  • $\begingroup$ "Loan Word" is the proper phrase for what the OP is talking about. It means a word which has come into one language from another language. For example, in French there was a word (among others), "la Girlfriend" which came from English. The French government was not amused. I'm a native US English speaker, and I studied languages in college (40 years ago). $\endgroup$
    – NomadMaker
    Jun 6, 2018 at 16:58

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Yes, it's possible to tweak the ponetic proncunciation, see the documentation here:

tts.setLanguage("English")
tts.say("\\toi=lhp\\‘zi.R+o&U \\toi=orth\\")
# Same as
tts.say("zero")
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