Hi Eric,
I have remembered another reason why you are likely disappointed by the
speech quality from the Mac version of Monet. The dictionary look-up is
incomplete. Words with alternative pronunciations in the original NeXT
version were rendered by the first one in the list, in the absence of
grammatical information to disambiguate them (remember -- there's no
grammatical analysis). In the current Mac version, such words are
rendered by the letter-to-sound rules, which are really *awful*, only
meant as a rarely used last resort. That loses a huge quality factor as
the rhythm and syllabification are screwed, as well as the segmental
choices (especially vowels), and should be fixed asap. Re-writing the
letter-to-sound rules is on the work list, but the dictionary look-up is a
more urgently needed fix.
Steve may have a comment here. I don't believe he's fixed the lookup yet.
d.
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