[JAWSLite] Re: jaws dictionary and sylable emphasis

Ha. Good example of contextual pronounciation. I have a feeling the 
parameter is something like proximity to the period.

By spelling I meant the A H in SakHahtmi. It clearly emphasizes the 
second syllable on my machine with Jaws 8 and Reed Eloquent. Some time 
ago the Window Eyes equivalent of dictionary manager had a feature that 
would replicate certain vowel sounds in a list of examples. The hardest 
to finagle I have found is cushy.

As Adrian said, this would depend on the synth.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:23 AM
Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: jaws dictionary and sylable emphasis


Huh... I saw that you had used the i but I ignored it because it doesn't
seem to matter. Does that matter on your machine?  On my machine, the 2
lines below sound exactly the same:
SakHahtmi
sack hot me

I'll bet this is not a jaws issue but an Elloquence  issue. I looked at 
the
jaws default dictionary and there are no words in it that fix emphasis. 
But
there must be a way for the system as a whole to  deal with this issue. 
For
example, notice the prononciation  of the word 'content' in the sentence
below:

I am content with the content of this sentence.

If you move the cursor over that sentence one word at a time, it
mispronounces  the first use of the word 'content'. But when it reads 
the
sentence as a whole, it pronounces it correctly. So maybe this is not a 
jaws
issue but a text to speech engine issue.

Wow, can you imagine what it must be like writing a speech engine? It 
must
have to understand sentence structure.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "G.W. Cox" <gwcox2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 5:52 PM
Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: jaws dictionary and sylable emphasis


> Check letter by letter what I wrote. The second syllable is 
> emphasized,
> and I changed the spelling.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 4:02 PM
> Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: jaws dictionary and sylable emphasis
>
>
> I don't think capitalization matters for emphasis. It makes jaws
> pronounce
> things as if they're seperate words though. The following 2 lines 
> sound
> exactly the same for my installation of jaws:
>
> sakHotMe
> sak hot me
>
> As I mentioned, this is closer than sakhotme, which jaws says almost
> like
> sackhim.  But it's still not right.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "G.W. Cox" <gwcox2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 2:27 PM
> Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: jaws dictionary and sylable emphasis
>
>
>> Sometimes uppercasing the first syllable that you want emphasized
>> works,
>> like SakHahtmi.
>> Note: I had to change the "me" to "mi" for that sound.
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "John Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 12:40 PM
>> Subject: [JAWSLite] jaws dictionary and sylable emphasis
>>
>>
>> Is there a way to have jaws emphasize  a sylable when adding a word 
>> to
>> the
>> dictionary?
>>
>> Say I have a 3 sylable word and I want the emphasis on the second
>> sylable.
>> Can I somehow tell jaws to emphasize the 2nd sylable? Actually, the
>> word
>> I'm
>> dealing with is a name, Sakhatme. It should be said 'sack hot me" 
>> with
>> the
>> emphasis on the second sylable. Like 'sack HOT! me".
>>
>> Just telling jaws to pronounce the word as if it's "sack hot me"
>> helped.
>> But
>> it would be nice to get it right so that I will start saying it right
>> myself. Out of force of habit, I sometimes mispronouce this name when
>> I'm
>> talking to the actual person.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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