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Originally Posted by Fledchen
Nuance does some thing well, and other things poorly. One thing it does poorly is that it does not handle a lot of common words very well. "Global" rhymes with "cobble" according to Nuance, and "potatoes" is "POT-a-toes" instead of "Po-TA-toes."
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Most good text to speech packages use a combination of "rules" with which to work out how to pronounce "odd" words, and a "dictionary" containing correct pronunciations of common words. It sounds as though your package lacks the dictionary aspect if it's falling over on common words.