Another word that is mispronounced is tear as in crying. The book sense pronounces it tidder.
-----Original Message----- From: Rod Gowen [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 1:50 AM To: [email protected]; Bryan Bashin Cc: Rod Gowen Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] Add these words to fix in the BS dictionary Hi, Here is what I have come up with to date: Book Sense Mispronounced word list: characters is charactaws Interest is inpist October is Octo boo Labor is laboo Corp. is copration Any word beginning with "inter" is mispronounced: The "er" is always dropped. Any word starting with "after" has the "er" dropped, as: Afternoon is aft noon We all hope that the pronounciation dictionary get some help in an update! Rod ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Bashin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:42 PM Subject: [GW-Booksense] Add these words to fix in the BS dictionary > Hi folks, > > I'm sure those of us on this listserv can create a short list of > words that the present Book Sense speech synthesis does badly. Here > are a few that I have noticed that are regularly mangled. I hope > these fixes can be put in the next release. > > Mispronunciations: > > Barbara > > Labor > > October > > Interested > > and US dollars being read as Australian dollars > > Any more for the list? > > > Bryan > > >
