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[Silas S. Brown]

Hi Ben,

> I hope you're not taking this wrong

Not at all :)

> I've played around with learning the Japanese syllabary,
> and found it quite useful for that.

????, glad it's useful.

You shuld be able to use Gradint as well if you
can find someone to record the words and
phrases for you.  Unfortunately there doesn't
seem to be a free Japanese speech synthesizer
yet, although we could put together a simple
one by concatenation, if we can find a set of
good-quality GPL'd recordings of all possible
Japanese syllables (including the ones made
from more than one kana), spoken at a
reasonable speaking pace (not drawn out
artificially), all of similar length, and
ideally all the same pitch (although Praat can
compensate for that if necessary).  But I don't
know where to get that from; all the Japanese
people I know are too nervous to do such a thing.

Silas