I am making a list of vowel sounds for a diction class. I need to isolate the vowels from the words. I did the diphthongs already, those were easy, but the bag and book vowels I'm stumped on. I need to memorize them all as well as tern it in. If there was a way to tweak the Jaws dictionary to make oo make the book sound and ahh make the bag sound I would be happy, because those look to a sighted person like the actual sounds. Here is the list of Italian vowels if you want to see what I mean: Has 7 vowels: E, a, ehh, ahh, auh, oh, ooh. Thank you, Brandon Keith (Biggs) Check out MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brandonkeithcom Also add me on facebook! brandonkeith http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=675097942 And for my resume go to: http://www.sfcasting.com/brandonkeith From: Farfar Carlson Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 7:31 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: making vowel sounds with Jaws? Brandon, I really don't understand what you're needing to accomplish. Are you trying to construct diphthongs with vowel combinations to correctly speak the standard vowel sounds? Are you constructing a list of these for a class, yourself, or to put into a JAWS dictionary file? And then you may need to consider that Eloquence through a sound card may have a different sound than through a hardware synth like a Dectalk Express. and how about those Real Speak and SAPI 5 voices? Again I just don't understand your mission. Dave Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area. ----- Original Message ----- From: Brandon Keith (Biggs) To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 07:24 Subject: Re: making vowel sounds with Jaws? Hello, I just finished the list of vowels and these are the ones I can't make with jaws: the vowel in took, book, (I have ua, but that's not really right...), the vowel sound in bag and lag, (ahh doesn't work...) then a lot of glides, but I am fine with not having those perfect. Thank you, Brandon Keith (Biggs) Check out MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brandonkeithcom Also add me on facebook! brandonkeith http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=675097942 And for my resume go to: http://www.sfcasting.com/brandonkeith From: Brandon Keith (Biggs) Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 9:26 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: making vaul sounds with Jaws? Hello, I'm taking a diction class and I'm trying to isolate vowel sounds with Jaws. So far I have been able to do 8 out of the 12, but I'm stumped on the vowel sound you find in put or book. It should be two O's, but that just makes an oo sound. I would love any help on this! Thank you, Brandon Keith (Biggs) Check out MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brandonkeithcom Also add me on facebook! brandonkeith http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=675097942 And for my resume go to: http://www.sfcasting.com/brandonkeith