I have noticed this bug with the Eloquence synthesizer for a few years. It
may have been introduced when they changed the software to prevent certain
strings from crashing Eloquence. If you use the DecTalk synthesizer, Caleb
will be pronounced cakeb! The Microsoft Speech Framework synthesizers, Zera
and Helen will expand more abbreviations than you can shake a stick at. And
the Vocalizer synthesizers clearly have quirks, too.
Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Metcalf via Talk
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2017 2:41 PM
To: Via Talk
Subject: pronunciation query
Using Win7 with WE 9.5.4. I noticed recently that when reading documents
where an apostrophy-s occurs after a name ending with the letter h that the
apostrophy-s is not spoken in normal reading mode. Two examples: Jehovah’s
Isaiah’s. If I do a word by word cursor they do speak the apostrophy-s. Of
course, words or names ending with another letter followed by the
apostrophy-s do seem to read normally, i. e. brother’s, sister’s, Rod’s, and
Tom’s.
The question is: Is there a fix or is this just something that needs a fix?
Now that I am aware of the problem I am able to deal with it as needed.
Cordially,
Grandpa DOS, a k a Grant
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