We have had a lot of intensive discussions concerning
pronunciation. One of my favorite words is: "Octo-boo" instead of
"October." Or... "soljaws" instead of "soldiers." I don't think
mispronunciation was intentional. With this latest firmware, things
seemed to have improved a bit, but that could be wishful thinking on my part.
One major difference between the BookSense and the Stream... The
Stream doesn't translate Braille very well at all! The BookSense
translates Braille well. My BookSense isn't back from the shop yet,
so reading with the Stream right now is the only choice I have. The
Victor Reader Stream is a nice device, but I do miss my BookSense!
At 01:26 PM 5/16/2010 -0700, you wrote:
You'll find that Kate mispronounces some words that Paul does
not. One that comes to mind is "volume". Paul pronounces it like
that. Kate says "voloom". Paul does still mispronounce other
words, and it may have to do with the fact that HIMS apparently did
not use the entire Voiceware Neospeech for the booksense--perhaps
for space considerations. Some one once suggested some kind of
dictionary that the user could edit for proper pronunciation, but I
don't know if that will ever happen.
Kim Lingo At 12:35 PM 5/16/2010, you wrote:
Hi. I am a new user of the Booksense, just having purchased it
last week. I'm really impressed with the Booksense. It's a great
product despite some quirks which I would love to see dealt with in
future versions. I was a Victor READER Stream user from it's
release until last week. I'm afraid I changed products as the
Booksense has much better speech (I find Kate great to listen to),
and I love the ability to be able to read word documents without
converting them.
I must admit, that although Kate is great to listen to, someone at
whichever company produces the Kate and Paul voices must have quite
a strange sense of humour. The first time I heard Kate and Paul
were when they shipped with the Kurzweil reading system. I was
reading a Harry Potter book at the time and was baffled by hearing
the phrase "he's not busy Weassley" on regular occasions.
It transpired that whenever Kate came to the word Charlie, she
pronounced it as "he's not busy"!
Now, whenever Kate comes across the word "interest" he says
"inpest" and so on with other similar words. Clothing becomes
"clotheb" and there are others of a similar nature. It's not just
a quirk in her speech algorythms, I think, as she pronounces most
words excellently. I'm sure such weird word pronunciations have
somehow been deliberately introduced! I'm not blaming anyone of
course, but I would love to see these off-the-wall pronunciations
corrected in future. I accept that she is always going to
mispronounce some words, but words such as interest really aren't difficult.
I truly wish the booksense was supplied with a case with a belt
clip. I don't like having it hanging around my neck and I don't
tend to wear clothing with pockets. I understand GWMICRO make such
a case but it's not available in the UK which is a real shame.
Having said all the above, it's a great product and so I just
wanted to pass on my thanks to all at Gwmicro and Himms for all
their work on making this possibly the top of my list of must have
gadgets at present.
With best regards.
Donna Slater.
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Jeremiah 29:11-14 (Amplified Bible)
11For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the
Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to
give you hope in your final outcome.
12Then you will call upon Me, and you will come and pray to Me,
and I will hear and heed you.
13Then you will seek Me, inquire for, and require Me [as a vital
necessity] and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.(A)
14I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will release you
from captivity and gather you from all the nations and all the places
to which I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back
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