[bookport] Re: An Alternative to a Pronunciation Dictionary
- From: "Mike Arrigo" <n0oxy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:26:22 -0500
I would agree with this. You can also change things such as articulation,
entonation, head size, etc. A speech submenu would be a nice idea.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremiah Z. Rogers" <jzr@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bookport@Freelists. Org" <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 9:39 PM
Subject: [bookport] An Alternative to a Pronunciation Dictionary
> Hi fellow book porters. I've watched, with great interest, the different
> ideas about the features and functions you'd like to see added to the Book
> Port. Many of you have suggested means to alter what you've called
> pronunciation, but in your examples, you've almost unanimously cited
> instances where the doubletalk speech used the wrong expansion of an
> abbreviation: drive instead of doctor, saint instead of street, etc. I've
> suggested, in previous posts, that APH allow Book Port users more access
to
> the finer features of the Doubletalk synthesizers: control of intonation,
> pause between words, level of enunciation, tone control, etc. All of these
> features are available in other devices which utilize Doubletalk speech,
and
> as such should be technically available in the hardware presently on-board
> your Book Ports. How does this tie into pronunciation of abbreviations? I
> believe that there is a means of instructing Doubletalk to simply announce
> abbreviations rather than try to parse them. Thus it'd say DR for doctor,
ST
> for street or saint, etc. This bit of modification should prove much more
> efficient in terms of space utilization, as well as in meeting the needs
of
> most users. Were APH to turn its users loose with complete control over
all
> of Doubletalk's wide array of configurable features as I've previously
> requested, this feature could simply be one of them and could be part of a
> speech parameters submenu off the main menu perhaps. I'll be interested to
> read reaction from list members to these thoughts, as well as any thoughts
> which might be offered by APH staff on the list. Many thanks in advance.
> Jeremiah
>
>
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