[nvda] Re: Pronunciation quirk followup

If it is a word that you encounter regularly, experiment with the dictionary. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: kendell clark 
  To: nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:48 PM
  Subject: [nvda] Pronunciation quirk followup


  Hello all:
  I just wanted to clarify the email I sent last night about pronunciation 
quirks. It's not about switching from, say, english to french when the 
synthesizer encounters a foreign phrase, it's simply about eloquence, espeak, 
etc  being able to reasonably accurately pronounce the words. I had jaws 10 on 
my pc a while back and el the eloquence synth version used in that program 
rarely, if ever had these issues,  where the words had accents it adjusted 
pronunciation appropriately. NVDA is great and this is not any criticism 
against it. I think this may be because jaws has a newer, and possibly improved 
 version of eloquence, and possibly the custom api  that controlls the 
eloquence synth. Is there anything  that I can do, or that can be done to help 
this? I suppose espeak could be improved, or perhaps I could add entries in the 
speech dictionary  but I normally only use it if I absolutely cannot live with 
the speech. Eloquence cannot be changed except by adding entries.
  This is not a compleint.
  Any help would be appreciated.
  Kendell clark

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