Re: Jaws Dictionary with names
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:02:39 -0700
Phonetically, the two seem to work the same, at least with my Eloquence.
Should be good enough. I've got a file that's an inventory of all the CDs
on my wall, listed alphabetically, category by category. And because this
includes a lot of names, especially in the classical and world music
sections that it really annoys me to hear mispronounced pretty crazily by
Eloquence, I've had a lot of practice playing around creatively with
phonetic spellings in the Jaws dictionary. And it mostly works out okay. I
had to figure out tricks to change the accented syllable sometimes, which
can often be done, not by dividing the syllables, which creates an unnatural
gap, but by capitalizing the first letter in the syllable you want to
stress,. You just have to experiment to learn how the synthesizer's mind
works, so to speak. workAround city. Note how I capped the "a" there, so
now it speaks the word as we do instead of saying "workaround." Just a
lagniappe (lanYap, Louisiana Bayou Cajun French for "a little something
extra")
by contains a
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dana S. Leslie" <dsleslie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: Jaws Dictionary with names
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>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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
>>
>> Blessed Be,
>>
>> Dana
>> that's Dayna, D A N A, NOT Donna, D O N N A
>>
>> D. S. Leslie, née C. R. Guttman
>> Email: DSLeslie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Skype: dsleslie
>> Web: ÞE OL' PHILOSOPHIE SHOPPE
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>> http://members.cox.net/dsleslie2/
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Steve" <k8sp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 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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