

//=========================================================
// German
//=========================================================



phoneme @   //  Schwa
  vowel starttype (@) endtype (@)
  formants vowel/@
  unstressed
  before r/  vwl_de/3+50     // replace [@r] by [3]
  length 125
endphoneme


phoneme 3   //  open Schwa
  vowel starttype (@) endtype (@)
  formants vwl_de/3
  unstressed
  length 160
endphoneme


phoneme a
  vowel starttype (a) endtype (a)
  length 150
  formants vowel/a
  before r/ vwl_de/r_a+100
endphoneme


phoneme E
  vowel starttype (e) endtype (e)
  length 140
  formants vwl_de/E
  before r/ vwl_de/r_E+120
endphoneme


phoneme E2    //  as[E] but reduces to @ if unstressed
  vowel starttype (e) endtype (e)
  length 140
  formants vwl_de/E
  before r/ vwl_de/r_E+120
  reduceto @  0
endphoneme


phoneme I
  vowel starttype (i) endtype (i)
  length 120
  formants vwl_de/I
  before r/ vwl_de/r_I+70
endphoneme


phoneme I:
  vowel starttype (i) endtype (i)
  length 190
  formants vwl_de/I
endphoneme


phoneme O
  vowel starttype (o) endtype (o)
  length 150
  formants vwl_de/O
  before r/ vwl_en_n/O@+60
endphoneme


phoneme U
  vowel starttype (u) endtype (u)
  length 150
  formants vwl_de/U
  before r/ vwl_de/r_U+70
endphoneme


phoneme A:
  vowel starttype (a) endtype (a)
  length 240
  formants vwl_de/A:
endphoneme


phoneme i:
  vowel starttype (i) endtype (i)
  length 180
  formants vwl_de/i:
  after w w/wi:
endphoneme


phoneme u:
  vowel starttype (u) endtype (u)
  length 190
//  formants vwl_de/u:
  formants vowel/u:
endphoneme


phoneme aU
  vowel starttype (a) endtype (u)
  length 220
  formants vwl_de/aU
endphoneme


phoneme aI
  vowel starttype (a) endtype (i)
  length 210
  formants vwl_de/aI
endphoneme


phoneme OI
  vowel starttype (o) endtype (i)
  length 220
  formants vwl_de/OI
endphoneme


phoneme E:
  vowel starttype (e) endtype (e)
  length 190
  formants vowel/E:
endphoneme


phoneme e:
  vowel starttype (e) endtype (e)
  length 200
  formants vowel/e:
  before r/ vwl_de/r_e+80
endphoneme


phoneme o:
  vowel starttype (o) endtype (o)
  length 200
  formants vowel/o:
endphoneme


phoneme y:
  vowel starttype (u) endtype (u)
  length 200
  formants vowel/y
  before r/ vwl_de/r_y+70
endphoneme


phoneme y
  vowel starttype (u) endtype (u)
  length 150
  formants vowel/y
  before r/ vwl_de/r_y+60
endphoneme


phoneme Y:
  vowel starttype (@) endtype (@)
  length 220
  formants vowel/Y
endphoneme


phoneme W
  vowel starttype (@) endtype (@)
  length 160
  formants vwl_de/W
endphoneme



// CONSONANTS
//===========

phoneme ts
  vls alv afr sibilant
  vowelin f1=0  f2=1700 -300 300  f3=-100 80
  vowelout f1=0 f2=1700 -300 250  f3=-100 80  rms=20
  lengthmod 2
  wave unvoc/ts
endphoneme


phoneme pF
  vls blb afr
  vowelout f1=0  f2=1000 -500 -350  f3=-200 80
  lengthmod 2
  wave unvoc/f    // could replace this with a [pf] wav file
endphoneme


phoneme r
  liquid
  lengthmod 7
  beforenotvowel r/
  trill
  formants r/rr
  after _ r/rr
  after t r/trr p r/trr k r/trr
  before _ r/r_
endphoneme


phoneme r/   // variant of [r] when not preceding a vowel
  liquid vowel2
  length 100
  lengthmod 7   //
  formants NULL
endphoneme



