Between WE and JAWS, yes there's a difference. -----Original Message----- From: Chip Orange [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 7:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: To all Natively English speaking users - I need some feedback:
I'm afraid I just don't hear this with eloquence; probably one of those very personal things, but I doubt you can accomodate this type of speech effect with a dictionary. Chip > -----Original Message----- > From: Katherine Moss [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:33 PM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: RE: To all Natively English speaking users - I need some > feedback: > > The big problem with it though is that it puts the wrong stress on the > rong syllable. For instance, we stress the 12 in 2012 and not the 20. > We stresses the 20, the first syllable instead of the second like > normal English speakers do. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chip Orange [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: To all Natively English speaking users - I need some > feedback: > > Hi David, > > I think our American English version of Eloquence may be different > than the one you're using? Because as Mike and others have pointed > out, it is already speaking a 4-digit year in the way you are > proposing (the first two digits as a number, followed by the last two > digits as a number). > > I think you are likely to find this varies from synthesizer to > synthesizer, and within each one probably varies from one language > version to the next. > > Good luck with this! > > Chip > > > > ________________________________ > > From: David [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:51 AM > To: WE English mailing list > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: To all Natively English speaking users - I need some > feedback: > > > In my local Non-English language, we often use to divide the four > digit year number, into two groups of two-digits. That is, the year > 1995, would be pronounced as 19 95. > > As I am working on the Extended Dictionary app, that has been > anounced on the list earlier, I wanted to know, what is the official > way of pronouncing year numbers in English. > Or, at least, what is the general wish of the community. As you all > will have noticed, Eloquence by standard wants to read out the year as > a full four-digit number. At least to me, I find that rather > wearisome, as the number 1981 would produce more verbage, than would > 19 81. > > The app is doing quite a bit of Date handling, and there is a chance > here to modify the way of reading year numbers. And, just to calm you > all down, the stuff can easily be modified by the end-user. Yet, I > want to know, if it would be the wish of the community, to have some > kind of modified pronounciation of the years, shipping with the app. > > All feedback will be appreciated. Thanks alot, > > David > (The Author of the Extended Dictionary app) > > PS: The Extended Dictionary appp is currently in its Beta-testing > process. Hopefully, it will be made available to the community later > this summer. Still, this question goes to the whole community, since > it has been considered of vital importance. All the modification the > app will be performing to any speech output, can be fully controled by > the user. > Even if the app ships with a set of modifications, the user is free to > do what he wants with the shipped entries. > > > >
