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by lai 3353 days ago
This is hilarious and very good. How do I make it say a word though? Is it possible?
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You can make most pulmonic voiced consonants, except laterals, trills, dentals, and retroflexes, so /m n ɲ ŋ ɴ b d ɟ g ɢ ʡ ʔ ɣ z ʒ ʑ β ʋ ɹ j ɰ ʁ ʕ ɦ ⱱ ɾ/ are all possible, as well as all vowels. If you're really quick with your mouse you can then make pretty decent sounding words using any of these sounds. Some relatively easy ones I managed to do are "man", "no", "guy", "me", and "why".

Some require co-articulation and diphthongs. For example, "why" requires putting the tongue to the top left, /ɯ/, rounding the lips, making it /u/, then quickly releasing the lips and moving the tongue to the bottom/bottom-right, /a/, then sliding it to the top right, /i/, so that you end up with /uai/ which is pretty close to the correct English /waɪ/.

I figured out "mama" pretty quickly (click in the front of the nasal cavity). Also, I figured out why it's such an easy word for babies to learn.
Similarly, "papa": click on the upper "lip".
I can get it to say "yeeeeaaaahhhh"