I guess it goes back to the old joke of.... "you say toe-may-toe and I say toe-mah-toe". Is it Care-a-bee-ann or is it Ca-rib-bee-ann?
But I got a kick out of how some of the voices pronounced joule (jewel) as jow-ul. Jerry ________________________________ From: m. f. moon <jayhawk...@usa.net> To: jeremiahmacgre...@rocketmail.com Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2009 11:18:55 AM Subject: Re: [USMA:44366] TYPE AND SPEAK Jerry, at least, they day data as dayta except for the irish and south african voices. m moon ------ Original Message ------ Received: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:34:08 PM PDT From: Jeremiah MacGregor <jeremiahmacgre...@rocketmail.com> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> Subject: [USMA:44366] TYPE AND SPEAK http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal This is an interesting web site. I used it to type in metric words and selected various male and female voices from different English speaking countries to see how they were pronounced. Try units like coulomb and bequerel.. Jerry