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Schwas?
Topic Started: Feb 23 2011, 02:36 PM (179 Views)
Dangosan
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I'm experimenting with English capacity in Japanese UTAUloids. I made tips on the old forum about the L and the X sounds. Now I'm trying to produce a schwa from a Japanese VB...with a few success.
NOTE: the schwa is a sound marked with an inverted e in IPA or an @ in X-SAMPA. Examples: her, bird
How I can make more realistic schwas? Can somebody send tips such as choosing the base vowel for the schwa, doing the morphing, etc.
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Prince Syo
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Techinically, a schwa has no phonetic realization, it's a term used for when sounds get short(lazy) and turn into a common sound in a language (Basically, schwas represent vowel reduction.) Many people don't realize that they use schwas in pronunciation while they speak, and schwas in different languages can be totally different sounds.

For example the schwa in english most commonly /ʌ/ (as in strut) but occasionally turns into /ɪ/ (as in kit) (the closest vowels in japanese for /ʌ/ is /a/ and for /ɪ/ is /e/)

However the schwa in french is completely different and is commonly pronounced /œ/ (as in sœur) but is also sometimes /ø/ (as in ceux)

Languages such as Korean and Japanese don't have any schwas because they used phonetically consistent alphabets (there's only one way to pronounce a letter in each of them) but they're common in western languages that use any form of the roman alphabet.

If you want to look up more on it, I suggest you search up "Vowel Reduction in <language>" on wikipedia or something.
Edited by Prince Syo, Feb 25 2011, 09:26 PM.
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Dangosan
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@Syo I need only one schwa, and this is the @.
The @ schwa is a key to remove pronuncation slurs from Japanese UTAUloids.
*tries to use STP...*
EDIT: I came up with a schwa prototype.
Edited by Dangosan, Feb 26 2011, 08:11 AM.
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