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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