word dictionaries for speakup

[Charles Hallenbeck]

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.
> >
> >
>
>
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