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There's an immense amount of qualities not indicated in IPA, like aspiration (difference between the p's in pin and spin), vowel length (fit and feet), palatalization (the difference between the n's in nine and new), all of which are not binary but analog qualities, some of which are differences between languages and some of which just quantify interpersonal differences.

It just can't be done, I'm sorry.

You're much better of using a tts engine tuned for a certain language.




If you know that your input describes a certain language (eg English), you shouldn't be worse off starting from IPA than normal letters.




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