Re: Dictionary for different voices

  • From: "Judith Bron" <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 22:53:40 -0500

I write novels and some of the words are foreign.  Jaws pronounces some of
them in a very wierd way and I have gotten used to these oddities over the
years.  It's strange, in jaws 3.5 some of these words were pronounced a lot
more accurately.  Judith
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Lowe" <akronjack1982@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: Dictionary for different voices


> Huh?  Each voice makes different pronunciation mistakes?
> All of the eloquence voices say all of the words the same way.  If they
are
> pronouncing them wrong, have you tried to fix that in the dictionary
> manager?  That's what it's for.
> But in Jaws 6.0, I believe you have more options as to how you use the
> dictionary manager.
> You can have it read some words with the German voice, for example.  But I
> don't know well Jaws does with changing cynth voices on the fly like that.
> But I know that it can be done.   Jack
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 10:05 PM
> Subject: Re: Dictionary for different voices
>
>
> >I think dictionaries for different synthesizers was meant.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Truong" <bnfiles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 2:23 AM
> > Subject: RE: Dictionary for different voices
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Run that by me again?  I don't think I really quite understand what you
> > =
> > are
> > wanting to do here.  Are you saying that you want a specific voice for a
> > specific Jaws dictionary entry?  If so, I don't think that would be =
> > possible
> > without some major scripting.  Perhaps the sounds and speech manager =
> > might
> > be able to help.  What an interesting idea!
> >
> >
> > David Truong
> >
> > E-mail and MS messenger:  davidtruong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Skype:  blindboxer1967
> >
> > Home Page:  http://members.optusnet.com.au/davidtruong/
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >>From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On =
> > Behalf
> > Of Chandni
> > Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 7:13 PM
> > To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Dictionary for different voices
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> > is it possible to create and run dictionary files for different voices =
> > (eg.
> > AT&T natural voices and microsoft voices)? I know how to create a new
> > dictionary, but how do you then tell JAWS to use that one instead of the
> > default one for the application I'm in? I'd like to be able to choose =
> > the
> > dictionary according to the voice I'm using, because each voice makes
> > different pronunciation mistakes.
> >
> > Thanks so much
> >
> > Fran
> >
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