Those 2 examples are rather difficult, aren't they?
I'll have to forgive those...
On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 at 07:11, Carolyn Arnold <4carol...@windstream.net>
wrote:
> I fix mine with JAWS all the time. I don't think it is possible for it to
> get it right about read/read (pronounced red) and lives/lives (pronounced
> to rhyme with fives).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Carolyn
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Evan Gibson
> Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2018 10:13 PM
> To: VIPhone
> Subject: Sharing Voice Dream Reader Pronunciation Dictionaries
>
> I've been using Voice Dream Reader and trying to find a good place to talk
> about it and this seems to be one of the few places it ever gets discussed.
>
> I've found that there are huge problems with the default pronunciations
> that apply to ALL voices used. I would've originally thought that there
> would be voice based differences in pronunciation but there does not appear
> to be. I even got some of the different voices _specifically_ to see if the
> pronunciation was better.
>
> I'm Australian and I hear the same problems in the Australian voices and
> all the British and American ones.
> Even though I'm Australian I'm used to hearing British and American TV all
> the time and the program does not pronounce things even vaguely normally
> for those countries either.
>
>
> Given the severity of the problem I presumed there would be a website
> somewhere where people were sharing their personal Pronunciation
> Dictionaries to fix all these mistakes but apparently no-one even talks
> about sharing them as far as I can see.
> (I was looking for this prior to putting huge amounts of work into my own,
> to save duplication!)
>
> For examples (I'll try and dig up others later)
>
> bringer is always pronounced to rhyme with fringer instead of ringer like
> it should be.
> black-eyed or black-eyes is always pronounced blackies (That one makes me
> cringe)
>
> I'd imagine someone out there has a personal dictionary that's a few pages
> long and includes regexes and all kinds of things, and yet this topic seems
> to go undiscussed?
>
>
> Anyway, at the very least is someone starts searching for the same issue
> hopefully they'll find this from now on!
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Evan
>
> --
> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone
> list.
>
> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or
> if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the
> owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.
>
> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at:
> mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at
> caraqu...@caraquinn.com
>
> The archives for this list can be searched at:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/
> ---
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "VIPhone" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> .
> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com> .
> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone.
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>
>
> --
> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone
> list.
>
> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or
> if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the
> owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.
>
> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at:
> mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at
> caraqu...@caraquinn.com
>
> The archives for this list can be searched at:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/
> ---
> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the
> Google Groups "VIPhone" group.
> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit
> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/viphone/BzP5zN6OziI/unsubscribe.
> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to
> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com.
> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone.
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>
--
Change is death. Death is compulsory.
--
The f
