This is a very good suggestion. Personally, I prefer Braille to speech but
like both Keynote and Eloquence. Often I find myself using the Braille
display in conjunction with Keynote speech to determine the location of
exclamation points. A higher voice inflection for exclamation points would
be a nice enhancement to the already high-quality Keynote Gold synthesizer.
Lindsay
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Ring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 1:30 PM
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] A few KeyNote Gold suggestions
This is an excellent suggestion.
It is especially important for users of the Voice Note, and since many
of those I teach are Voice Note users, I would love to see something
like this implemented if possible.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Parks
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 2:21 PM
To: BN Mailing List
Subject: [Braillenote] A few KeyNote Gold suggestions
Hi all, but mainly HW staff,
I use KeyNote Gold instead of Eloquence, if I use speech at all.
I have been using more and more speech lately, and have noticed a
few things:
1. When a letter is capitalized, it is raised in pitch when
spoken. All letters, that is, except i. Whether small or
capital, i is said at the same pitch.
2. The pronunciation dictionary, or maybe even the code itself,
could allow exceptions to pronunciation rules. By that I mean
you would almost never say, "their lives", you would say, "their
lyves". Having to choose between lives and lyves could be
avoided by setting up these exceptions. "They wind", as opposed
to "they wynd", is another example.
3. Semicolons are treated as periods, not semicolons, so that a
sentence containing a semicolon sounds more like two sentences.
Similarly, exclamation points sound like periods.
Overall, I much prefer KeyNote Gold to Eloquence, and would much
rather my Jaws spoke with KeyNote Gold. That would be really
nice; have the sound of the remote synthesizer but with no remote
hardware. Sorry, that is for Jaws, not the BN's.
Alex
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