Adding Word to User Dictionary

[Freman]

Hey, so after a recent adventure in teaching xlights some Aussie words (specifically: mozzie) I thought I'd try and document it.

The xLights manual sends you to the CMU LOGIOS tool and the The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary but "mozzie" wasn't in the dictionary and xlights wouldn't take the output from LOGIOS.

I was able to get it to work by using the User Lyric Dictionary dialog and asking ChatGPT, it was just a matter of figuring out how to ask

I'm sure there are other, probably better ways but that worked for me

My custom dictionary items to save anyone else the work:

WOWZA  W AW1 Z AH0
WATTSON  W AH1 T S AH0 N
LUMIE  L UW1 M IY0
ZAPPERS  Z AE1 P ER0 Z
MOZZIES  M AA1 Z IY0 Z
MOZZIE  M AA1 Z IY0

 

[merryoncherry]

The xLights manual sends you to the CMU LOGIOS tool and the The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary but "mozzie" wasn't in the dictionary and xlights wouldn't take the output from LOGIOS.

If you use the online CMU dictionary be sure to tick the box labeled "Show Lexical Stress", then it will work.

 

[Freman]

If you use the online CMU dictionary be sure to tick the box labeled "Show Lexical Stress", then it will work.

CMU Dict has no idea how lucky it is not to have mozzies in it.

 

[merryoncherry]

Considering that xLights maps everything to about a half dozen faces, we should probably adjust phoneme_mapping (in program files) to take the unstressed phones. Then it would work with LOGIOS output.

 

[Freman]

Considering that xLights maps everything to about a half dozen faces, we should probably adjust phoneme_mapping (in program files) to take the unstressed phones. Then it would work with LOGIOS output.

Eh maybe, asking chatgpt was fairly easy as a work around tho
It just took me a day to figure out the unstressed ones weren't working.
Interestingly, I've apparently managed to do it before because Wowza isn't a word I added in this round of tinkering (I don't even remember adding it lol)