de8 - a male Bavarian voice
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I created this voice as a part of my diploma thesis,
which is concerned with building a Text-To-Speech
System for the Bavarian dialect. The thesis was written 
at the TFH Berlin {Technische Fachhochschule Berlin} 
in 2004 with the assistance of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Jörg 
Mixdorff, whom I want to thank for his support.

Initially I tried to replicate the Bavarian dialect
with an existing German phoneme inventory, such as
"de7".  I discovered that unfortunately there are too
many differences between the phones of the Bavarian
dialect and the other German ones to sound realistic.

As the best results I achieved using this method
merely sounded like Germans from the north trying to
speak the Bavarian dialect, I consequently decided to
build my own inventory. I examined the Bavarian
dialect, which is spoken in the city of Wasserburg am
Inn (located approx.  50 km south-east of Munich) 
and the surrounding area.  I found 11 vowels, 
11 diphthongs and 21 consonants or combinations of
consonants, which are listed below. I tried to label
the phones close to the SAMPA-notation, but sometimes
I had to invent my own SAMPA-Labels.

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Phone	Example				Translation to German
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Vowels:
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A		RAdl, tAgsIfaRA	Fahrrad, Taxifahrer
a		ana, tAgsIfaRA		Anna, Taxifahrer
E		AdrEs,OlE				Adresse, alle
e		kenA, fRemd			kennen, fremd
e:	e:s, dAne:m			ihr, daneben
I		dRIn, lIgd				drinnen, liegt
i:		mASi:n, si:				Maschine, sich
o:	o:bst, gno:mA		Obst, genommen
O		SOlOd, glOs			Salat, Glas
9		g9fned, k9RbA		geöffnet, Körper
U		nUndA, RUnd			hinunter, rund

Diphthongs:
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AI	vAId, hAIfde			Welt, Hälfte
aU	maUs, baU				Maus, Bau
aI	dAfaId, haIsA		verfault, Häuser
eA	eAna, veAd			ihnen, wird
IA	mIAsn, glavIA		müssen, Klavier
OA	OAns, dOAg			eins, Teig
OI	kAnOI, vOId			Kanal, Wald
oI	foI, gSdoIn			voll, gestohlen
OU	rOUd, dOUd			rot, tot
UA	bUASn, RUA			Burschen, Ruhe
UI	gfUI, SbUI				Gefühl, Spiel

Konsonants:
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b		bo:lIdsaI				Polizei
pf	pfeAdl						Pferd
C		fi:C							Vieh
x		RUAx, baUx			geiziger Mensch, Bauch
d		dOC							Dach
ds	blOds						Platz
f		fAgesn					vergessen
g		agA							Acker
h		haUs						Haus
j		javoI						jawohl
k		kUA							Kuh
l		lambm						Lampe
m		hamA						Hammer
n		nOxAd						nachher
N		aNgsd						Angst
R		RUmben					rumpeln
s		mas							Maß
S		bolIdiS					politisch
Z		ZUId						die "Schuld" (oder "schuld" sein)
t		tUAm						Turm
v		vOAnA					weinen

Additionally, silence is labelled (as in general)
with:
_
I included 2.pho files as examples: traum.pho and
nordwind.pho in the directory "test".

For further questions concerning the inventory please
contact:

Markus Binsteiner, bairisch.m@rkusiminter.net 













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