Taiwanese Speech Synthesis Experiment

Context:

Please input Taiwanese Romanization (Tailo), or you can select from the following contexts:

(What strange and perilous times befall / Where Progress brings calamity to all / Like deluge sweeps, the tongue-collectors come / To drown the cradle whence our mother-speech is from.)

(The automatons do roam abroad / Recording throats with wire and rod / They speak of preservation's noble art / Yet come to seize and tear our voices apart.)

(The head of the house establishes data / Collecting various voices / Regardless of whether you are willing or not / All are recorded in the book.)

(Standardization's torrent flows / All regional speech must bow to those / Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Xiamen's ancient sound / Must speak as their decree has bound /)

(The Ministry ordains one tongue alone / All other forms as error shown / Our grandsires' speech, once held most dear / Now worthless dross, no longer clear /)

(O grievous flood, what sorrow brings / Not tempest's wind nor rain that sings / But Technology's inundation vast / Come to obliterate all tongues at last /)

(Behold how each one's accent shifts its key / Day unto day, no longer free / The youth their Taiwanese do speak / In tones no more our native peak /)

(Within thy palm-held oracle's sphere / Prescribed utterance thou must hear / Should'st thou the standard sounds forsake / The system shall thy voice unmake /)

(Language models like waters rise / No crevice left beneath the skies / Each dialect's peculiar grace / Vanished without a trace /)

(The moneyed syndicates proclaim thus / "We preserve thy tongue for all of us" / Yet in sooth they seek dominion's chain / O'er every word and voice's strain /)

(Awake, awake, thou kindred folk / Let not deception's yoke / Though mother-tongue protection they profess / 'Tis monopoly they would possess /)

(Mark well yon translation engine's might / Built upon their hoarded right / If we grasp not our own dominion's key / In bondage shall we ever be /)

(Standard sounds like dams constrain / Our living fountains' vital vein / Each locale bears its character true / Therein lies beauty's genuine hue /)

(Lukang's accent holds Lukang's soul entire / Yilan's cadence stirs Yilan's lyre / Should all be standardized in name / Culture's life-breath dies in shame /)

(United let us stand as one / Against tech-tyranny's dominion / Our own discourse ourselves shall guard / Let not their manipulation marred /)

(Our elders' accents we do hold / Are treasures worth far more than gold / Need neither correction's bitter rod / Nor standardization's iron nod /)

(Establish thou our own archive's store / Record our local voices' lore / Let not the merchant-princes seize / These roots of culture, if you please /)

(When teaching babes our mother-tongue's way / Fear not imperfect words they say / Each soul possesses their own style / This living language, versatile /)

(When deluge comes, it comes apace / Half the realm in waters' embrace / If language-sovereignty we lose / The selfsame peril we must choose /)

(When waters ebb, what ruin remains / Fields and hearths bear sorrow's stains / Should language fall to others' sway / Generations shall obey /)

(Some say 'tis but my anxious dread / That tech-advancement brings us bread / Nay, I perceive with vision clear / Sovereignty must rest with us here /)

(Artificial minds may aid our cause / Not come as tyrants making laws / Technology remains but tool / Depends how mortals it do rule /)

(Build platforms open, free and wide / Where all may join and there abide / Let language-data shared remain / Not monopolized for private gain /)

(Record each region's special mark / Preserve diversity's vital spark / Standardization's false debate / Difference is the treasure great /)

(Let Education's system reform its way / Not teaching merely one form to say / Let children learn to honor well / Each accent's variegated spell /)

(Tech-Fascism extends its reach profound / Long and terrible across the ground / Language-surveillance spreads its net above / Stay vigilant with strength thereof /)

(Posterity, attend my counsel's call / This deluge threatens one and all / No natural calamity's design / But human machination's sign /)

(Protect our mother-tongue through our own might / Rely not on external right / Let Technology in our hands remain / Through generations' endless chain /)