[bookport] Re: Drive and Street Etc.
- From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 18:02:58 -0700
If it pronounces these words with consistency, what's the problem? A minor
annoyance, I'm sore. when I had to walk to school, uphill, both ways, I'd
have been glad for any speech synthesizer. The folks at APH. had to make
decisions regarding which synthesizer to use based on a number of concerns
and I don't think the pronunciation of two words clinched the deal.
-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Walt Smith
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 2:20 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: Drive and Street Etc.
Harvey -
This has nothing whatever to do with the Book Port, except to the extent
that you cannot create a user dictionary. It's the way that the DoubleTalk
synthesizer works and since that's also the synthesizer that'll be in the
new Book Port, unless a user-modifiable dictionary is implemented, that's
the way it'll remain. I consider it an annoyance, but not a terribly serious
one.
-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Harvey White
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 5:56 AM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Drive and Street Etc.
I'm sorry to learn that the Book Port speech program cannot be modified by
the user. There is something depressingly stupid about a program that could
read "Drive South King moved to Street Andrews. instead of "Doctor S. King
moved to Saint Andrews"! The program designer seems to have been obsessed by
letter heads.
Okay; it can't be helped. But what about the new Book Port we've been
promised? I suppose that the company would have taken the opportunity to
correct the fault - wouldn't they?
Harvey White
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