I accidentally posted this to the wrong list before, so I'm sending it to the
right list this time. I made sure of that before sending it. Lol!
I've got an idea I'm surprised none of us til now has thought of. Someone posted a very useful hack for the bn registry a good while back, and I use it every time my bn has the ultimate fit and needs a hard reset. This hack allows us to choose
where we want our cookies and stuff to be stored by keyweb. For now, this choice isn't very easy to make in terms of the speed at which it can be done, and the fact that it goes back to default whenever a hard reset does occur.
My idea is this: in addition to allowing this choice from within keysoft, we should also be given the option of choosing where other things, like our email and address list and databases are stored (especially for the mPower because of its internal
memory limitations!), so we don't have to see those folders on the flash disk whenever we want access to something.
Here's another idea I just thought of. I sort of hinted at it when I wrote about the macros feature on the Blazie notetakers. In that email, I proposed a hypothetical macro that would switch pronunciation dictionary files whenever you wanted to
switch from kng speech to eloquence. It would be far more efficient for keysoft if the one dictionary had separate sections for both synthesizers. This would allow us to correct the pronunciation for only the current synth. This is necessary
because eloquence is VERY VERY hard to correct when it's not saying something right. In all my years of working with it, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get it to stress syllables in words like I've been able to do with KNG speech.
(Just so you know, putting a dash before the first part of a word deemphasizes that syllable, and stringing together parts of the pronunciation with dashes takes emphasis off those parts that have dashes before them.)
As an example, my correction for the letters "gb", which is the abbreviation for "gigabytes". Normally, kng says something that sounds like gig ah bytes. This is obviously erroneous! So I corrected it by typing "gigga-bytes". For another
example, we take the word "an". I don't like the way kng used to pronounce it, so I redid the way it says "an" so it sounds more the way we speak naturally. I typed comun. Funnily enough, it doesn't pronounce it "unn", like you'd expect. This
particular syllable by itself comes out like the second syllable in the word calendar. So the word "an" now comes out of kng speech on my bn exactly like that "en" in calendar.
I've been sort of selfish. I think I'm going to write an article on changing
the pronunciation of words in kng speech. Maybe I'll even zip up some audio
samples and my pronunciation dictionary for anyone who wants it. Everyone have
a good day.
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