OT: How to change the German word "Klammeraffe" into "at" in

[Jonathan Duddington]

On 18 Apr, Hermann <meinelisten at onlinehome.de> wrote:
> the "@" character gets more and more named "at" in Germany, instead
> of the German "Klammeraffe". It is exactly pronounced as in English.
> How can I change this in the dictsource directory of Espeak? I
> checked the files de_rules and de_list, but I cannot find the proper
> entries.

It's defined near the end of  de_rules, in the line:

   @   kl'ame:@,af@

You can change that to:

   @   at

Or alternatively you make a new file,  dictsource/de_extra  which
contains the line:

@    at

de_extra  acts as an extension to  de_list, so you can add your own
pronunciation here for words and symbols.


In both cases, you should re-compile the German dictionary data with
the command:
  espeak --compile=de

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