Chris Bennett: > When I last looked, apparently IPA had two fonts, neither of which > worked for all the characters. Is this still true?
You don't need extra fonts. IPA is covered both by Deja Vu that OpenBSD ships as the default TrueType font, as well as xterm's default bitmap font. > I have to ask also, is the audio quality that comes out the speakers (in > general) good enough to learn the proper sounds? Every device I have > seems to have wildly varying qualities and characteristics. > For example, (OK, not OpenBSD but somewhat relevant) if I wanted to > listen to the speech coming out of Google Translate, would a native > speaker of say Spanish, German or Russian consider the sounds "proper"? What a bizarre question. Listen to English dialog from your speaker setup. Does it sound like "proper" English? Anything that plays music in reasonable quality--so *anything*, really--will more than do for human speech. Google Translate's audio is machine-generated text-to-speech output. Again, check what it does for English. > Is there any software that makes proper sounds available (to port, I'm > too poor to buy non-free)? You might find this interactive IPA chart useful: http://www.ipachart.com/ > Haven't yet seen a class offering: > "How to correct your pronunciation years later to sound normal" That's the work of speech therapists and dialect coaches. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
