It is unfortunate. I'd prefer if it were possible to correct the
pronunciation in the voice's dictionary rather than just generally by
VoiceOver (or the screen-reader in Windows, etc.)
-----Original Message-----
From: 'Karen Delzer' via VIPhone
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2020 12:13 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of a word
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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