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Old 02-21-2017, 01:12 PM   #47
jackie_w
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
The problem is that the intonation one might use on italicised text in an ironical statement would be different to that one might use in an adversarial challenge. TTS needs to do deep linguistic analysis (syntax + semantics + idiom, cant, figurative speech, metaphor etc) of the text and get the right base intonation, before it has any chance of using an appropriate tone for italics.
I can't argue with that - which is why I don't understand what the point is of debating whether <i> or <em> is the 'right' option. It looks more like a philosophical/religious debate than a practical one. Everything I read with the eyeballs displays both as italic. Everything I listen to ignores both equally.
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