| @@ -198,10 +198,10 @@ translation rules and spoken with English phonemes. | |||
| |-------------|-------------| | |||
| | `_` | Beginning or end of a word (or a hyphen). | | |||
| | `-` | Hyphen. | | |||
| | `A` | Any vowel (the set of vowel characters may be defined for a particular language). | | |||
| | `C` | Any consonant. | | |||
| | `B H F G Y` | These may indicate other sets of characters (defined for a particular language). | | |||
| | `L<nn>` | Any of the sequence of characters defined as a letter group (see above). | | |||
| | `A` | Any vowel<sup>1</sup>. | | |||
| | `C` | Any consonant <sup>2</sup>. | | |||
| | `B H F G Y` | These may indicate other sets of characters<sup>3</sup>. | | |||
| | `L<nn>` | Any of the sequence of characters defined as a letter grup. | | |||
| | `D` | Any digit. | | |||
| | `K` | Not a vowel (i.e. a consonant or word boundary or non-alphabetic character). | | |||
| | `X` | There is no vowel until the word boundary. | | |||
| @@ -211,9 +211,18 @@ translation rules and spoken with English phonemes. | |||
| | `\xxx` | Character is written as by 3 digit octal value of `xxx`| | |||
| | `@` | One syllable (i.e. at least one vowel or diphthong) | | |||
| The sets of letters indicated by `A`, `B`, `C`, `E`, `F` and `G` may be defined | |||
| 1. The set of these vowel characters may be redefined for a particular language. | |||
| 2. The set of these consonant characters may be redefined for a particular language. | |||
| 3. The sets of letters indicated by `A`, `B`, `C`, `E`, `F` and `G` may be defined | |||
| differently for each language. | |||
| * (Re)definition of letter groups is done [in tr_languages.c](../src/libespeak-ng/tr_languages.c), | |||
| calling `SetLetterBits()` function from (usually) `NewTranslator()` function. | |||
| Note, that letters should be stored as array of chars, thus multibyte | |||
| unicode letters should be transposed using `transpose_min` and `transpose_max` parameters | |||
| of particular Translator instance. | |||
| Examples of rules: | |||
| ``` | |||
| _) a A // "a" at the start of a word | |||