Is there any way to correct the pronunciation of text to speech? For
example, my wife's name is Delise (pronounced Duh-lise) but the Vista TTS
engine keeps pronouncing it DEE-LICE!!

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Mike Matheny

On -, 16 Apr 2007 11:19:13 -0400, Mike Matheny wrote:
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> Is there any way to correct the pronunciation of text to speech? For
> example, my wife's name is Delise (pronounced Duh-lise) but the Vista TTS
> engine keeps pronouncing it DEE-LICE!!
>
>[/color]

Maybe if she took a bath.... <sorry -- couldn't resist> :-)

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Joey DoWop Dee
Remember: It is To Laugh

don't worry are you speaking the pure francaise ? which province?

for spanish language i've to distinguish between de spanish "c" or
southamerican pronunciation "s", ll for y are very different sounds
perhaps the speech recognition needs a hard training like the people receive
in the school
j'ai perdú la plumme dans le jardin de ma tante
translation: i've lost the pen at my aunt's garden



Saludos

Antonio

This isn't speech recognition - it's the text to speech pronunciation ( I
have a talking caller ID program, and when my wife calls I hate the way it
mispronunciates her name!)

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Mike Matheny


"Antonio Amengual" <amengual.mamerra@micono.com> wrote in message
news:5F2D2A3C-7485-40BF-8E90-D22D705AACBF@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> don't worry are you speaking the pure francaise ? which province?
>
> for spanish language i've to distinguish between de spanish "c" or
> southamerican pronunciation "s", ll for y are very different sounds
> perhaps the speech recognition needs a hard training like the people
> receive in the school
> j'ai perdú la plumme dans le jardin de ma tante
> translation: i've lost the pen at my aunt's garden
>
>
>
> Saludos
>
> Antonio[/color]

This isn't speech recognition, it's speech PRONUNCIATION!

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Mike Matheny


"Antonio Amengual" <amengual.mamerra@micono.com> wrote in message
news:5F2D2A3C-7485-40BF-8E90-D22D705AACBF@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> don't worry are you speaking the pure francaise ? which province?
>
> for spanish language i've to distinguish between de spanish "c" or
> southamerican pronunciation "s", ll for y are very different sounds
> perhaps the speech recognition needs a hard training like the people
> receive in the school
> j'ai perdú la plumme dans le jardin de ma tante
> translation: i've lost the pen at my aunt's garden
>
>
>
> Saludos
>
> Antonio[/color]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:42:30 -0400, Mike Matheny wrote:
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> This isn't speech recognition - it's the text to speech pronunciation ( I
> have a talking caller ID program, and when my wife calls I hate the way it
> mispronunciates her name!)
>
>[/color]

I'm a fish out of water here, but can you record a short clip in your own
voice with the correct pronunciation and assign it to her entry in the caller
ID program?

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Joey DoWop Dee
Remember: It is To Laugh

Yeah, guess I could. Point is, way back when (Win95 days) Creative's text to
speech program had the ability to correct pronunciation. You'd think Vista
would at least have some ability like that1

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Mike Matheny


"Joey DoWop Dee" <jwd511@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:0001HW.C249537F00D459CFF0182648@news.verizon.net...[color=blue]
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:42:30 -0400, Mike Matheny wrote:
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>> This isn't speech recognition - it's the text to speech pronunciation ( I
>> have a talking caller ID program, and when my wife calls I hate the way
>> it
>> mispronunciates her name!)
>>
>>[/color]
>
> I'm a fish out of water here, but can you record a short clip in your own
> voice with the correct pronunciation and assign it to her entry in the
> caller
> ID program?
>
> --
> Joey DoWop Dee
> Remember: It is To Laugh
>[/color]

I hear you.

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Joey DoWop Dee
Remember: It is To Laugh


On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:41:25 -0400, Mike Matheny wrote:
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> Yeah, guess I could. Point is, way back when (Win95 days) Creative's text to
> speech program had the ability to correct pronunciation. You'd think Vista
> would at least have some ability like that1
>
>[/color]