Timing marks

[Gilrock]

You said you would have loved to go in and tweak the lyrics.  You can do that.  Now you're saying the word breakdown isn't working.  Those are different operations.  When we breakdown a word we have no idea whether you've re-typed it so if it's not working then are you using a word that's not in the dictionary?  You can search the dictionary files and you can add new words to the user dictionary.

[RobertB]

Its two words together. Heart breakers . Both are in there. I took the hyphen out and it still didn't recognize it. Mainly because I believe it is in one window. How can I break that apart or type in another lyric in amongst the old lyrics. I guess I could combine it as heartbreakers and put in the syllables from there. However I am not sure what file format to save the dictionary in. I looked in the user manual and didn't see anything on this.

[Gilrock]

With the current state of the code you needed to edit the phrase to remove the hyphen not create a word that consisted of two words.

[Gilrock]

Or you might be able to just add the hyphenated word to the user dictionary and copy in all the phonemes that are associated with both words.

[gerry]

After you changed the word  to two words , did you select each one , right click and breakdown word ?

[Gilrock]

No the problem is he made it two words inside one timing element in the word layer.  We don't have a way to insert a word because currently there is no way to independently select each of the 3 layers to add timings.  All the original timing logic was written with timing rows only having 1 layer.

[RobertB]

Well....
Go read my cry for help in this forum.  Won't be doing anything if I have lost this sequence :-(  Help!

[gerry]

I looked in the user manual and didn't see anything on this.

Cause the guy writing it did not know

Was not sure if the user dictionaries were supported in XL.  I tried that in the old Papagayo program with not much success.

Normally when I find a word not supported , I move my mouth and try and come up wit a word that looks similar and use that instead.
 

[RobertB]

Actually kind of thought the same thing. Thought I would just insert a word. However, I couldn't find a way to insert any words after importing lyrics.

[Santa]

You can add words to the Phrase row by double-clicking on it, then breakdown to Words and Phonemes again for just that one phrase.

[RobertB]

Ok.
Will try that ... if I can get the file back ;-)