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by billforsternz 3252 days ago
Sorry for my ignorance, what is en-wm ?
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English as spoken in West Midlands

No need to feel ignorant; it's a nonstandard, eSpeak-specific notation.

Is there a list of these? Would be fun to know what the Geordie and Scouse ones are

  $ espeak --voices | grep ' en-'
   2  en-gb          M  english              en            (en-uk 2)(en 2)
   5  en-sc          M  en-scottish          other/en-sc   (en 4)
   5  en-uk-north    M  english-north        other/en-n    (en-uk 3)(en 5)
   5  en-uk-rp       M  english_rp           other/en-rp   (en-uk 4)(en 5)
   5  en-uk-wmids    M  english_wmids        other/en-wm   (en-uk 9)(en 9)
   2  en-us          M  english-us           en-us         (en-r 5)(en 3)
   5  en-wi          M  en-westindies        other/en-wi   (en-uk 4)(en 10)
Oh, that's kinda disappointing :(