Biez or buyez is about what I've settled on.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: Jaws Dictionary with names
Joan Beaz's surname is Spanish language (father was a Mexican academic at
Stanford) and the accent, contrary to how so many people have pronounced it
over the years, is properly on the *first* syllable. That would be the
problem with jaws and Eloquence reading "bees."
You could play with ideas like Buyez,for instance. That seems to almost get
it right.
Hope that helps.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tiger Mark" <mbmartin@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 6:29 AM
Subject: Re: Jaws Dictionary with names
Another combination I have found useful when correcting incorrect
i sounds is to use the u y combination as in the word guy.
Inserting the w in shania sounds about the same as the way I did
it
shania=shanuya
As for Baez, if you want the accent on the second syllable try
inserting a space between the i and e, and it will sound like the
following:
baez=bi ez
HTH.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dana S. Leslie" <dsleslie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: Jaws Dictionary with names
Just try to get it to say Baez correctly. That one gave me the most trouble. But I finally came up with: baez=biez
how about: shania=shawniah
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Dana that's Dayna, D A N A, NOT Donna, D O N N A
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve" <k8sp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: Jaws Dictionary with names
aerosmith = arrow smith mattea = matayah shania = shawniah (can't come up with the exact pronunciation).
Part of the problem is what speech synthesizer you are using with Jfw. These work pretty well with Eloquence, but I have to change a couple of them to work better with Dectalk Express. Interestingly, Eloquence does a decent job with Aerosmith without modification.
Hth,
Steve
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl J. Rose" <carl.rose1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 9:39 PM
Subject: Jaws Dictionary with names
Hi All...
I have a large music collection and am trying to get jaws to say names properly. I usually don't do much with the dictionary because I find it annoying and tedious. I generally just adjust my listening to mis-pronunciations.
However, I cannot tolerate some of these errors anymore. Can anybody help me with the following examples:
Twain, Shania Mattea, Cathy Aerosmith
Thanks, cjr
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