I haven't found that Alex is any worse than any of the other voices. Perhaps your mileage varies depending on what you read. I did notice that the GM or gold master turned into grams. Which I thought was interesting. I'm sure there are many of these, and they've been happening for years. I still say the best thing is to just leave it alone and let us figure out where the abbreviation means according to context. Sighted people do it all the time. Why can't we? Mary
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 21, 2015, at 9:03 AM, Jonathan Mosen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Indeed, my wife was reading a book the other day, in which one of the > characters ended up dying of terabytes. > To follow all the political excitement in Australia last week, I was > listening to a station in Sydney called 2 G B, which default Daniel, my voice > of choice, called 2 Gigabytes. > I also find Alex spells out a lot of things, such as email addresses and > Twitter IDs. It also seems to mispronounce more than most voices, so I give > Alex a miss. > Jonathan Mosen > Mosen Consulting > Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training > http://Mosen.org > >> On 22/09/2015, at 3:49 AM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Good old Alex has discovered a new cooking term. Did you know that when >> you're making short ribs in the slow cooker, you need to add one and a half >> terabytes of balsamic vinegar? When, when, will the folks who make the >> speech synthesizers stop trying to guess what abbreviations mean and leave >> it up to us, the human readers with the smarts, to figure it out for >> ourselves? >> Mary >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone 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 VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at >> [email protected] >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> --- >> 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 [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://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 VIPhone 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 VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://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 VIPhone 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 VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
