word dictionaries for speakup

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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.
> 
> 





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