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docs/phonemes.md: add a paragraph explaining how the feature set is intended to be used.
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| This document describes the IPA phonemes using the features used by Kirshenbaum. | This document describes the IPA phonemes using the features used by Kirshenbaum. | ||||
| Where Kirshenbaum does not specify a feature name, the feature name from | Where Kirshenbaum does not specify a feature name, the feature name from | ||||
| Cainteoir Text-to-Speech<sup>\[<a href="#ref5">5</a>\]</sup> is used. This is | Cainteoir Text-to-Speech<sup>\[<a href="#ref5">5</a>\]</sup> is used. This is | ||||
| to provide a consistent naming scheme for the extended feature set. | |||||
| to provide a consistent naming scheme for the extended feature set. Where there | |||||
| is still no feature available, a custom 3-letter feature name is chosen. | |||||
| The aim of the feature set described in this document is to specify the underlying | |||||
| phonetics and phonemics of the sounds being produced in a way that is consistent | |||||
| between languages and voices. While this feature set is modelled on the IPA, it | |||||
| is not meant to be able to preserve phoneme transcriptions when using a | |||||
| transcription as both the input and output phoneme sets. | |||||
| This document is grouped into two sections. The first section displays the IPA | This document is grouped into two sections. The first section displays the IPA | ||||
| charts using the feature names instead of their names, showing the IPA phoneme | charts using the feature names instead of their names, showing the IPA phoneme |
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