I can understand that words are mispronounced, but when one cannot
even go in and correct the pronunciation, there is something wrong.
Karen
At 12:53 PM 6/13/2020, you wrote:
It's the voice, not the screen-reader, that mostly determines how a
word is pronounced. (The voice's speech dictionary is
'hard-wired'.) So, one solution to a mispronunciation issue is to
instead use an alternative voice which will often speak the word
correctly. (This is an over-extensive solution, since the number of
mispronounced words (these days) is relatively small, by any
good-quality voice.) Besides, each voice has the accent of the
country from which its speaker hails: and, add to this, that not all
possible words were spoken by the human whose speech samples were
recorded for the particular voice. So the computer program gives its
best guess based on algorithms across and between the speech
samples, how a new or unrecorded word should be spoken by that
voice. Thus, also, 'artifacts' are introduced into the speech which
don't or never would occur in natural human speech: and when a word
is misspoken by the computer's voice, you have to go to considerable
lengths to make it sound like the word you're used to.
-----Original Message----- From: Carolyn
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 3:17 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Pronunciation of a word
I tried this, and it sounds right with JAWS on my computer:
Peese
P e e s e like cheese. Now, you'd think peese would sound like
cheese or peas, but it sounds like peace.
-----Original Message-----
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Flor Lynch
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 8:57 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of a word
How are you spelling the substitution for 'peace'? Does 'piece' come
out the same way? Try peess?
-----Original Message-----
From: 'Karen Delzer' via VIPhone
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2020 10:36 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Pronunciation of a word
Hi, all,
I'm sorry if this has been covered, but this is driving me batty.
When I hear the word "peace" on my iPhone, it is always pronounced
"peas." Now, it doesn't matter if I try to change the pronunciation
in the correct place in Settings. No matter what I do, and I have
tried many, many things, it always gives me the same outcome. I'm
using the Alison voice if that matters. Just drives me nuts. When I
hear "Lord, please give me peace," I don't want him to give me a
scoop of veggies, so does anyone have any ideas here?
TIA,
Karen
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