Robin,
It's the synthesizer attempting to decide which form of the word to use
according to context. But of course when reading by word and to an
extent line there is no or little context. If the synth is sent a
sentence then there's context. But they can only do so much on the fly
with these homonyms. And screen-readers are the ultimate challenge given
the way they work.
Consider a talking device which speaks its own menus, options, messages,
etc. In such an environment the entire vocabulary and contextual use is
known in advance. So the same synth can be programmed to be phonetically
perfect for each of the relatively small number of speech events that
will occur.
Regards,
Tom
On 4/25/2016 5:49 PM, Van Lant, Robin via Talk wrote:
This is only a curiosity... I've noted a couple different instances lately where a word
I'm reading will be pronounced differently if I have WE doing Read to end as opposed to
reading by Word or line. The latest word today was "resume" in a document I
was reading about Keyboard commands. In read to end, it was say resume, as in the
document you create for job interviewing, and when arrowing up and down or by word, it
would pronounce it as rezoom, meaning to start again. I know there was a word over the
weekend on a different document that I noticed this on. Just curious why this might be.
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