04-05-2022, 05:16 AM
(04-05-2022, 01:19 AM)Emma May Smith wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Hi Koen, I guess that's my suggestion: h2 could be low because the script faultily records distinctions. A reader familiar with the language wouldn't have a problem restoring the correct reading from their own knowledge. A bit like English "th", which is restored to /th/ or /dh/ by recognizing the whole word.
Quote:I'll try to test this tomorrow, although I'm not sure yet how to replace half of all o's randomly. Humans are bad at random so it would have to be automated somehow.
For each [o]:
1. Generate a random integer.
2. Check the remainder of that number divided by 2.
3. If the remainder is 1, change the [o]. Otherwise leave it
A bit of searching suggests that Python can generate a random number with a bit size of 1, so effectively a random boolean.
(Unless I've misunderstood what you were asking.)
English is of course rather nasty when it comes to representing single phonemes with bigrams.
sh, ch, ph, th are all quite frequent, and look at words like methane / pothole and bishop / mishap.
The human mind is quite a capable instrument.
With respect to the question about randomly replacing o's, the bitrans tool I posted at my web site can do this for you.