word dictionaries for speakup

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Chuck:

No, I don't recall that. But it's probably because I never had one of them 
there

	Ray Kurz wheel

specials, so only heard them incidentally in passing.

PS: That's what my doubletalk says -- kurz wheel

How did his machine do it?

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> 
> 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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