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paradife-loft · 11 days ago

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fun fact nobody asked for: if you go to ipa-reader.com and fuck around with inputting different combinations of text-to-voice readers and IPA transliterations, you can make the computer spit out pretty damn accurate sound clips for "here's how this original character's completely made-up conlang name is pronounced"!

Khisit Ffosavrow

Ahriss

Meshurat Vestiin

Ilevath

Hyellinde

Issirut

(there's a couple of others I wanted to do, buttttt the machines were not cooperating. I don't think it likes the diacritic for nasalized vowels.)

(also fwiw the IPA renderings at the links aren't strictly-speaking how I'd most accurately write most of these names; they're a combination of the general right phoneme/prosody direction, but tweaked based on how the different voices read various letter combinations together.)

#the biggest inaccuracies wrt how I imagine these in my head #come from how I wasn't able to get the TTS voices to stop aspirating word-final T while preserving the other features I wanted #(also for obvious reasons their inability to deal with a specific headcanonical dimension of phonemic contrast in sith #that most likely doesn't even have an ipa rendering bc it's only loosely based on irl earth languages)#(the prototypical realization is like a... higher frequency/more forceful/sort of geminated fricative sound vs a softer/shorter one)#(.......................yeah that's starting to belong to a different post that's just Headcanon Sith Language Infodump. so.)#Khisit Ffosavrow #Ahriss Kallig #Meshurat Vestiin #legal clerk destroyer of worlds #Hyellinde #Issirut Mar'Kishtal

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