Heck, I want to hear my name pronounced correctly. I've used speech synths for more years than I care to admit to, but I'm still not used to hearing my own hardware say my name wrong. Exceptions dictionaries are a gift. I hope we have one someday in the not too distant future. On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > Hi. I can't remember if this is on the list of things to be worked on > or if it's possible. Is it a good idea to have a speech dictionary so > that words that our lovely synthesizers pronounce funny can sound a > little better? I'm sure that a lot of us who have used synthesizers for > years are used to how things are said but what about the new user? If > something like this could be implimented it could be placed in > /proc/speakup/speech_dic or something like that. Then have the format > be something like 'oldpronounciation=new pronounciation' per line. > >
