I've been using Voice Dream Reader and trying to find a good place to talk about it and this seems to be one of the few places it ever gets discussed.
I've found that there are huge problems with the default pronunciations that apply to ALL voices used. I would've originally thought that there would be voice based differences in pronunciation but there does not appear to be. I even got some of the different voices _specifically_ to see if the pronunciation was better. I'm Australian and I hear the same problems in the Australian voices and all the British and American ones. Even though I'm Australian I'm used to hearing British and American TV all the time and the program does not pronounce things even vaguely normally for those countries either. Given the severity of the problem I presumed there would be a website somewhere where people were sharing their personal Pronunciation Dictionaries to fix all these mistakes but apparently no-one even talks about sharing them as far as I can see. (I was looking for this prior to putting huge amounts of work into my own, to save duplication!) For examples (I'll try and dig up others later) bringer is always pronounced to rhyme with fringer instead of ringer like it should be. black-eyed or black-eyes is always pronounced blackies (That one makes me cringe) I'd imagine someone out there has a personal dictionary that's a few pages long and includes regexes and all kinds of things, and yet this topic seems to go undiscussed? Anyway, at the very least is someone starts searching for the same issue hopefully they'll find this from now on! Thanks, Evan -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
