Talk:English Phonetics/@comment-213.120.234.130-20160430102413/@comment-53539-20160430123340

Okay there isn't a easy way to sum this up... but... To be fair on ya, you don't need to learn all of this most of the time.

If you type in "I love you" it comes up with the phonetic data next to it and Fukase English will say "I love you". Phonetics is advanced stuff, that you "learn" over time anyway. it just means if you use words like "Civilization", the Vocaloids may not know how to say it. Then the phonetics is needed. I had to use the system so that Big Al could be programmed to say that word.

There are lessons on phonetics on youtube and the guys at vO forums can run you buy.

I think the majority of this page is more or less aimed at those who want to learn more, its never been newbie friendly. The Phoneme List page will help with understanding the basics, this is more newbie friendly.

Compare this page with Japanese Phonetics... A lot of this amounts to just "English is complicated". You don't really need to take in accents off the bat, nor the enlist build or any of that. Just focus on learning the basics, the rest of this page is for those who want a explanation for why Big Al is so dam heavy on his vowels or why Cyber Diva doesn't sound things the same way as Avanna.