Janina - Did you ever hear how the Kurzweil Reading Machine pronounced Ray Kurzweil's name? I would have thought that would be the first thing he would fix. Chuck On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Janina Sajka wrote: > 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. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waning Crescent (31% of Full)
