There is a workaround to solve the synth pronunciation quirks. Create a new Window-Eyes user profile and name it for the synth that profile will use. Each new user profile is able to be tailored to each user's preferences of synth and screen, keyboard, mouse, verbosity, etcetera, settings because each profile has its own unique folder containing set files, character, exception, key label, graphic, etcetera dictionaries. Furthermore, a new user profile can be created using all of your other settings so that you don't have to set your rates, tones, verbosity blah, blah, from scratch. It would take some time and patience to tweak a new excp.dic for a given synth, but if mispronunciations bug you, then you will find it worth your time. Once you have created new user profiles, then instead of switching synths, you would switch user profiles.
-----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Kingston via Talk Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 8:57 PM To: Ted Larson; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: Seeking Your Input Ted, Regarding your desire for a pronunciation dictionary? This isn't possible. The speech synthesizers are completely independent of Window-Eyes. They're made by other companies and they all have different quirks. So there's no way for the folks at AI (or any other screen-reader developers) to do anything about it. That's why Window-Eyes has the exception dictionary feature. But you don't want to use it to fix every little quirk in a synth because all text queued for voicing must query the dictionary before being sent to the synthesizer. This is why most of them have commercial versions for dedicated systems such as phone services. And these commercial versions have the tools to create pronunciation dictionaries and embed them into the synthesizer itself. And if you use more than one synthesizer you'll see differences in what's pronounced right and wrong between them. Hth, Tom On 5/29/2015 7:46 PM, Ted Larson via Talk wrote: > First, I would like to know what is hogging the system, taking away > resources from the application I am working on. > Second, Sometimes a dialog box appears without telling me anything and > then disappears within a couple of seconds without a clue. > Third: It would be nice to have all words that window-eyes cannot > pronounce correctly, to be updated through a dictionary where those > words could be found and spoken correctly. Thanks. Regards: Ted Larson > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Curry via Talk" > <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 2:32 PM > Subject: Seeking Your Input > > >> Hello Everyone, >> >> We are constantly working behind the scenes to improve our products. >> If you could narrow down the top three requests you would have us add >> to our screen reading product, what would they be? >> >> Thanks for the input! >> >> Jeremy >> >> Jeremy Curry >> Director of Product Management >> Ai Squared, Inc. >> Phone: (802) 362-3612 >> Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> Web: www.aisquared.com<http://www.aisquared.com/> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the >> author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. >> >> For membership options, visit >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/ted.larson1740 %40sbcglobal.net. >> >> For subscription options, visit >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >> List archives can be found at >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the > author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/tom.kingston%4 0charter.net. > > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/fenderwal%40sb cglobal.net. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
