daisy reader for gnu/linux, listen-up!
Steve Holmes
steve at holmesgrown.com
Tue Aug 12 22:31:46 EDT 2003
Well, it's all sysnthesiser dependent as my speakout says it correctly
without the dash in there. So I suppose the - will force proper
pronunciation in all speech cases. Hey, just knock the punctuation
level down to #2 and read a line at a time and listen-up will actually
sound like listen up:).
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:38:38PM -0400, Ann Parsons wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Well, Janina, only problem with "listenup" is that instead of hearing
> "lissenup", I hear "list-ten-up". Now iffin you're a language lover
> like me, and you know that list, is an old form of listen, that's
> fine. But speech synthes will say it wrong every time unless we spell
> it "lissenup". It might be sorta cute to spell it that way. It's up
> to you folks. But "lis ten up" doesn't have the same impact.
>
> Ann P.
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