At 10:28 AM 9/1/2012, David wrote:
>All the date handling ever processed by the extended Dictionary, is based on
>entries in the Voice-Specific Dictionary, of any voice. In the English
>Dictionaries, the American Date section, is rather extensive. I won't deal
>in details, with the reason for it's being this extensive.
If you want us to use this app, you owe us more information about why
these mispronunciations are happening and how they can be corrected.
As I told you in private email, I have punctuation signs being
misspoken or spoken at a higher pitch, short vowels that are
pronounced as though there were three or four in a row, suffixes like
"ING" or "ED" being separated from words, even final letters being
voiced at the ends of words. This has happened with and without my
dictionary entries being added to your basic dictionary. I combed
through the entire shipped and basic Dectalk dictionaries and found
no references to word fragments, vowel sounds or phonemes. Yet, the
synthesizer is obviously receiving input from somewhere in your app
that is changing how it pronounces even the most basic sounds. You
can either deal with this problem constructively or at least give us
the ability to have your app relinquish dictionary processing for any
synthesizer we choose and then kick in when we choose one of its
listed synthesizers. It would also help for your app not to insist on
rebuilding/reloading deleted dictionaries.
>But if you open the Voice-Specific Dictionary of an English voice,
you will find the section
>spanning from line 169, way down to line 1891. It is introduced with the
>Heading "; **** American Dates:", and ends where the next heading is reading
>"; **** Other Date Definitions:".
Yes yes, but none of those sections address the mispronunciations I'm
talking about.
>To get rid of the American way of date handling, you will have to remove
>this whole section. That is the chunk of lines, between the two above
>mentioned headings. Once removed, your Dictionary should handle the
>non-American ways of date notations properly. Note, this has to be done on
>each Voice-Specific Dictionary, for the voices you want not to handle
>American dates. The benefit would be, you could have one voice handling
>American dates, and another voice which handles dates in the non-American
>way. Switching voices, you then also would be switching the date handling
>automatically.One of the big tayloring possibilities that is part of the
>extended Dictionary project's intensions.
>
If only your assertion were true! No matter what we delete in the
basic or shipped dictionaries, the default information will reappear
upon relaunch. I tried all sorts of combinations: leaving one or both
dictionaries blank, filling them only with my entries and deleting
all of yours, etc. All yielded the same mispronunciations.
Orlando
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