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Old 12-28-2007, 01:53 PM   #9
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How much is it sensitive to the pronounciation?

I could make a relatively good use of it, but the most of what comes out of my mouth is Czech, my first language, which makes my English pronouncation rather untrained. A quite big majority of people with whom I communicated did understand me (to the level that I did not notice any semantic misunderstanding in their replies), but I tend heavily to use the Czech pronouncation of vowels instead of the ones that are more natural.

However, I suppose that for a program it might still be better than the "lazy" pronounciation leaving out rather larger parts of words that some natural English speakers tend to.

As I think of it again, the dictation of my texts seems even more brilliant idea than I first thought - it can help me with writing while also training my pronounciation.
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