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Re: [gnuspeech-contact] another important comment


From: D.R. Hill
Subject: Re: [gnuspeech-contact] another important comment
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:06:18 -0700 (MST)

Hi Eric,

I have remembered another reason why you are likely disappointed by the speech quality from the Mac version of Monet. The dictionary look-up is incomplete. Words with alternative pronunciations in the original NeXT version were rendered by the first one in the list, in the absence of grammatical information to disambiguate them (remember -- there's no grammatical analysis). In the current Mac version, such words are rendered by the letter-to-sound rules, which are really *awful*, only meant as a rarely used last resort. That loses a huge quality factor as the rhythm and syllabification are screwed, as well as the segmental choices (especially vowels), and should be fixed asap. Re-writing the letter-to-sound rules is on the work list, but the dictionary look-up is a more urgently needed fix.

Steve may have a comment here.  I don't believe he's fixed the lookup yet.

d.
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