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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
It's not so much mispronunciation (which it does do), it's more like an accent that is hard to understand at first, but you learn to decipher.
One funny thing is that when a sentence ends with "coop." the TTS assumes it is an abbreviation and pronounces it as "cooperative". Another is that it mispronounces "pinnaces" (a type of sailing ship) as "penises". It doesn't come up often, but it's funny.
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You summed it up with in that it's like an accent that you eventually get used to.
Also those interesting pronunciations certainly take some getting used to. Just read a book with a character named "Ahm Lin" and my Kindle would say the letters "A H M" Lin. Previous book (Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe) had a sword named Terminus Est, in Latin, but of course the Kindle assumed Est was short for Estate so it was always things like "I killed him with Terminus Estate."
Oh and the always annoying confusion over wind and wound. Is it "wind" or "why-nd" and then "woond" or "wownd"?