: Unlike English, every letter in Esperanto has exactly one sound, and there are no silent letters.
While Esperanto's phonetic consistency makes it easier for computers to read than many natural languages tts esperanto
Because Esperanto is a second language for almost all of its speakers, and because it lacks a nation-state to fund large-scale linguistic corpora, there is a significant shortage of high-quality training data. Furthermore, because speakers hail from all over the world, the "accent" of Esperanto can vary. Should a TTS voice speak with a French lilt? A Slavic intonation? Or the standardized accent promoted by the Akademio de Esperanto? These questions complicate the standardization of synthetic voices. : Unlike English, every letter in Esperanto has