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Originally Posted by arjaybe
[...] I don't find "said" to be hard sounding in my readings. Don't know about my audience. [...]
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I think the hard sound in the text-to-speech rendition may come from how it automates emphasis and pauses based on general speech patterns and syntax. I think the software places a subtle emphasis at the finish of a paragraph, and since an attribution of "said" is so often at the end of a paragraph, and already ends with a hard "ed" sound, the combination becomes too much of emphasis (just where you are looking for subtle). There are other, similar, artefacts that result from the automation. A lot of this stuff is probably be adjustable in the software, but I don't bother for my editing work.