[nvda] Re: strange pronunciation quirks

In the french rules for Espeak, for example, I have setup a limited detection 
of english words.
Some character sequences are typically english and will never be found in 
frenchh.
So, french Espeak has a limited capability to detect english and to pronounce 
it as expected.
I have done it only for English and you cannot go too far in this direction 
without leeding to confusion in some situations.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: James Teh 
  To: nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:08 AM
  Subject: [nvda] Re: strange pronunciation quirks


  On 26/02/2009 4:01 PM, kendell clark wrote:
   > Some of the novels I read have words in them
  > other than english, for example someone might say an expression in
  > spanish or french. The speech completely mangles the pronunciation to
  > where It's completely unintelligible. I use both eloquence and espeak
  > and neither one seems to get it right. Eloquence does a better job of
  > it. My question is, is this due to NVDA or simply due to the
  > synthesizer?
  NVDA currently does not do any language detection or switching; it just 
  sends the text to the synthesiser as is. For languages based on the 
  Latin alphabet (e.g. English, Spanish, Italian, German and most other 
  European languages), most synthesisers cannot distinguish between the 
  language. I believe eSpeak and Eloquence both know how to switch between 
  languages when dealing with languages that use entirely different 
  characters; e.g. if eSpeak is set to use a Chinese language, it will 
  speak English words as English.

  Some web sites, etc. provide special markup which indicates what 
  language a given piece of text is written in. We don't currently support 
  this, but it is possible to switch languages when this information is 
  encountered.

  Aside from that, Aleksey SAdovoy has been talking talk about having NVDA 
  automatically detect and switch languages. This will not be as 
  successful for languages with similar characters, as differentiating 
  between them is difficult, but it is interesting nevertheless.

  -- 
  James Teh
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