Hi,
Shawn
Oh, wow. Is this one of the characteristics of RealSpeak? Am I wrong to
think I remember that, if you're using Eloquence, there's a menu item in the
Jaws configuration manager for text processing, I think is the category,
where you can define that kind of behavior? Won't those settings simply
work on RealSpeak, as well, without having to do all those dictionary
gymnastics?
Humphh. This is looking like a bit more of an annoyance than a respite from
the admittedly mechanical sound of my old friend Reed. Still, I'm looking
forward to trying it out.
From: "Gary King" <w4wkz@xxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 9:56 AM Subject: Re: reply from FS re problems with RealSpeak
John,
If FS won't fix the problem with the RealSpeak synthesizer, and you wish to
use this synthesizer, you will just have to put all of those problem words
into the Dictionary Manager in such a way that the abbreviation expansion is
defeated. DECtalk Access32 says Sunday every time it receives the word sun.
I replaced s u n with s o n in the dictionary manager, and it doesn't do
that any more.
Gary King w4wkz@xxxxxxxx
----- Original Message ----- From: "john coley" <johncoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: reply from FS re problems with RealSpeak
Hi Yard Bird, believe me the misreading goes a lot further than that. I'll
give you a couple of examples. AnyDVD is read as "a new york dvd"; Neko is
read as "north east K O" and so on. The problem isn't necessarily one of
case. Max, short for Maximillian is read as Maximum; Min, short for minute
is read as minimum and the list goes on.
John.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: reply from FS re problems with RealSpeak
Hi guys,
As I suggested earlier, if you capitalize the "s" in the middle of the word, it then sounds in Jaws as people actually say it, instead of something like re Ul spee yak. In other words, "realsSpeak."
Just trying to help. guess I've got sensitive ears. Hope this is helpful to someone besides me. Sometimes it takes a little effort to figure out how to make things pronounce right, especially in these times when so many high tech product names are designed to be run together like that, a convention that, now that I think of it, maybe is meant to hark back to the more computer-y, once-novel look of how filenames had to be run together in DOS. Or maybe not. Whatever. But without a little attention, Jaws can't say these clever product names without sounding retarded.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Stone" <alex.stone@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 3:50 AM
Subject: RE: reply from FS re problems with RealSpeak
Cy, Yeah, but it's probably because they're going to be offering
Realspeak
with jaws version 8, so they probably don't want to get involved in
fixing
existing problems with versions of realspeak which are not shipping with
jaws.
Cheers.
Alex
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of
Cy Selfridge
Sent: 16 October 2006 11:37
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: reply from FS re problems with RealSpeak
My, but this sure sounds like genuine Corporate Flim Flam to me. Cy, the Ancient Okie...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of john coley Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 5:31 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: reply from FS re problems with RealSpeak
Hi Everybody, following on from my recent postings about the problems with Realspeak and Jaws I had a reply this morning from FS regarding it. John. Dear john
Thank you for contacting Freedom Scientific technical Support. Our
development team is working to address any issues with JAWS and the
synthesizers offered
with it. However, because JAWS 8.0 is still in development, there is no
information regarding the status of any issues known currently. If I can
be
of
any additional assistance to you, feel free to email me back.
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