Adding words to lexicon

[caw]

How can I add words to the lexicon?
Apologies if this is 1)in the docs or 2)obvious or 3)obviously not within scope
Do I just edit rita.js, for example adding "palpate"
just embed
palpate: ["p-ae1-l p-ey1-t", "vb"]
into the word map?
with thanks

[dhowe]

simplest way is to get a handle to lexicon's data object and manually add the entry:

    let lexData = RiTa.lexicon().data;
    lexData["palpate"] = ["p-ae1-l p-ey1-t", "vb"];

or if you have multiple additons:

    let toAdd = {
      'palpate': ["p-ae1-l p-ey1-t", "vb"],
      'wadly': ['w-ae1-d l-iy', 'rb']
    }
    let lexData = RiTa.lexicon().data;
    Object.keys(toAdd).forEach(w => lexData[w] = toAdd[w]);

Alternatively, if you think these should be words in the default RiTa lexicon, then please submit a PR with your additions to this file: https://github.com/dhowe/ritajs/blob/master/src/rita_dict.js

[caw]

Thank you - that completely answers my question.
I will submit a list of medical terms - is there a canonical way to get the phonetics right?

[dhowe]

You can try this tool: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/tools/lextool.html

Note that here is a tradeoff between package-size and lexicon coverage. We are often trying to reduce the size of the lexicon, rather than increase it. And I'm not sure average users would need medical terms. Perhaps we can publish this a sort of add-on or plugin ?