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Originally Posted by DuaneAA
The only place the software ever has problems is with common words that have several different pronunciations. It seems like it screws them up a lot, but I'm sure it just you only notice when it uses the wrong one. Among the most annoying ones are 'minute' (it seems to prefer the pronunciation for a small quantity when 98% of the time you really want the word referring to a unit of time), read (it defaults to the present tense, when I usually want the past tense), and it annoying spells out h m m rather than saying hmm. Some of these you can fix by tweaking the wording (like typing 'red' when you want the past tense of 'read') and some you can fix with their learning function (that I have always been to lazy to learn). But again it all just takes time, if you are trying to tweak something that is hundreds of pages long. So I have just learned to live with a small percentage of mispronunciations.
Duane
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I appreciate the info. Have you ever seen a way to tell the software what definition it should use for a particular word? For example, "minute." If you could highlight the word and then click on a definition, the software would know how to pronounce the word.
Clearly this type of app has a long way to go, but I suspect that there will be a lot more work on this type of app real soon. If I understand correctly, Siri is actually in the cloud and constantly learns from everyone's usage.