I'm not sure if anyone here can help me but I'll give it a try. I've noticed this with all Greek synthesizers that I've tried not just with ESpeak. But the latter is open source so has a better chance of being improved.
I love the Greek speech in ESpeak with NVDA. It recognises the normal tonos (accent) in the monotonic system just fine and does a very nice job of pronouncing most things. But when I try to read things in the polytonic system (not ancient but Katharevousa and older Dimotiki texts) it won't say the words properly. If I try to go over them letter by letter, it will read the ones without an accent and with the tonos fine, but whenever one of the other two accents pop up, it acts as if there's no letter there or as if it can't make out what the letter is. It doesn't say blank. In fact, it doesn't say anything. I tried, just out of curiosity, to use the ancient Greek voice on these texts but the results were disasterous. Not only couldn't I understand the speech but it wouldn't read the letters no matter whether they were polytonic or monotonic. I really want to learn Katharevousa once I finish with Dimotiki and this lack of ESpeak's ability to handle the polytonic system is severely hampering me. Does anyone have an idea as to how it can be remedied? I don't really think it would be too difficult, since they did manage to make it recognise the tonos. If not, then does anyone know a synthesizer that I might have missed which could read both types of Greek? Thanks, Eleni For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
