Now I'm curious. How do you correctly pronounce it? One of the benefits of my recent purchase of a Mac is the built-in spell checker and the way it gets integrated into the Mail program, along with almost every other editing situation. VoiceOver does a great job of letting me know when I blunder. Now, if more people would write accessible games for it... But I'll save that lament for another day. On Jan 26, 2011, at 12:52 AM, Ken the Crazy wrote:
> I remember actually hearing someone, a jaws user, pronounce GeoCities as > geocities. Even NeoSpeech gets it wrong, which is why I didn't even try to > write how she pronounced it--you probably just heard your speech synth > slaughter the word. > > Ken Downey > President > DreamTechInteractive! > And, > Blind Comfort! > The pleasant way to experience massage! > It's the Caring > without the Staring! > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "shaun everiss" <[email protected]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 9:42 PM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] just curious > > >> I aggree milos. >> One thing I really hate is how the word router is pronounced. >> rout er, ie rout er is prenounced rooter. >> So when someone says router I say rooter because the reader has got me to >> say the rooter. >> suddenly route is root and I guess this is one of the issue with synth >> speech. >> On that note now I use vocaliser in hal it doesn't happen >> route is root but router is actually router so it figures, actual non >> natural voices are bad and crappy then again vocaliser just may have a good >> dictionarry. >> I remember how for ages talks and eloquence used to say vadafon instead >> of vodaphone untill they updated the synth to say that right. >> At 02:24 p.m. 26/01/2011, you wrote: >>> For someone using the spell checker is really a puzzle, so solving a puzle >>> instead of puzzle is easier... :) >>> Now seriously. There are two things that make this problem. First, for us >>> who don't speak English so well, using a spell checker can really take some >>> time. For example, I write a word that jaws pronounces the same way it >>> pronounces the word that I intend to use. There is write, right, rite, >>> wright, and so on, of which some words even don't exist. Then the spell >>> checker offers the list of other words that don't match the word we want >>> and that's a trouble, so it consumes some time till we find out what the >>> right word is. >>> The other problem is that many people use the synthesizers for their own >>> languages to read even english texts and vice versa. That happens for many >>> reasons that I am not going to talk about now as my message is already long >>> enough. So many of those voices will read the word puzle in the same way as >>> they read the word puzzle, so when one hears it and understand what it >>> means from the context, the person will continue to use it, avoiding the >>> spell checker because of the previous problem. >>> I appologize for so detailed explanation of my opinion on this, but I made >>> it because it could be a very sensitive subject, as some of those who are >>> not native english speakers can be offended which I am certainly not, as it >>> also drives me crazy when someone insistantly writes in a wrong way. >>> Best regards! >>> Milos Przic >>> msn: [email protected] >>> skype: Milosh-hs >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Rivard" >>> <[email protected]> >>> To: "audyssey gamers list" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 2:01 AM >>> Subject: [Audyssey] just curious >>> >>> >>>> Why do so many people talk about puzles instead of puzzles? 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