Microsoft has a very good Chinese synthesizer for Vista Ultimate users. With the default settings of many TTS software (such as 2nd Speech Center, Natural Reader, JAWS, etc.), MS-Lily speaks perfectly. But with Window-Eyes 7.0 default setting, MS-Lily ignores all punctuations.
The punctuations in Chinese language are nearly identical with those in English (except that the former is encoded in GB-2312 while the latter is in ASCII encoding). When reading a long article (Read-to-End), we expect MS-Lily to have a brief pause on comma and a longer pause on period and End-of-Paragraph. With Window-Eyes 7.0 default setting, MS-Lily reads a whole paragraph (and a whole article) as a continuous stream of words, with no pause at all on any punctuations (comma, period). I tried to adjust the Punctuation Options, but none of the settings affects MS-Lily. Does anyone know how to make a SAPI-5 Chinese synthesizer to pause on punctuations? Thanks in advance. Randy If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
