Comment by londons_explore

Bwaaaaaak bwakbwakbwak

If it can create sounds associated with any nonphonetic word spellings, I can't see why it would struggle with onomatopoeia.

Almost certainly not. Sounds like an old school vocoder, made to produce human speech and nothing else.

Can it understand those sounds? And distinguish correct and incorrect pronunciation of words and accents?

As in, a cluck?

But can it both say the word cluck, and make a clicking sound?

asking the real questions