Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading.

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A study from Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences revisits a long-standing idea in language science that ...

Most of us learnt that ‘a’ goes before consonants and ‘an’ before vowels – and most of us were only half-right. This Learning with TOI English Hack explains the real rule: it is not about letters, but ...

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Abstract: This paper presents the analysis of vowel phonemes of Punjabi. It shows formant analysis of vowels produced by speakers of Punjabi as a first language from Punjab. Comparison and analysis ...

@wangkenpu Thank you for the update! I've been testing it and it's looking much better. I'm seeing both characters I noted previously coming through correctly as well as the r-colored vowels. One ...

When processing English text without phoneme input, F5-TTS shows inconsistent pronunciation patterns, particularly with vowel sounds. The model appears to have difficulty distinguishing between ...