Wrong pronunciation of "six" in Russian

[D-side]

Ever since I switched TTS to Larynx, while I did get a massive voice quality improvement, I've had one massive bother: the way it pronounces "шесть", Russian for "six". It's one of the ten digits, so it's spoken very often when reading sensor data.

After poking around a bunch, I randomly discovered the issue in gruut-lang-ru/gruut_lang_ru/lexicon.db:

sqlite> select * from word_phonemes where word = "шесть";
530064|шесть|0|ʂ oː s tʲ|

Here's another word with a very similar pronunciation, at least as far as vowels are concerned:

sqlite> select * from word_phonemes where word = "жесть";
123349|жесть|0|ʐ eː s tʲ|

The pronunciation of шесть should probably be ʂ eː s tʲ. Wiktionary (mostly) agrees.

---

I applied this change to lexicon.db in the Russian profile inside my installation:

update word_phonemes set phonemes = "ʂ eː s tʲ" where word = "шесть";

And it worked!
How can I contribute this change for everyone else to enjoy? Do I just send in a PR with the modified database file?

[synesthesiam]

Thanks! Yes, a PR would be great 🙂
In the mean time, you may want to check out the successor to Larynx: Piper

[D-side]

Already did that! Though only in "look, don't touch" fashion 😅
I don't entirely understand my existing Rhasspy setup to perform any surgery on it for now. I'll see what I can do though.