Piper TTS and abbreviated titles Dr. Mrs. etc

[Barty]

Hi

Piper has a flaw, common with TTS, in that it pauses after abbreviated titles like

Dr. House -> doctor (pause) house.

It also doesn't know some titles, like St. It reads it as suh or sin and treats the . as full stop.

Fixing the TTS may be too hard. Perhaps it's best to do expansion of the most common abbreviated titles prior to sending it to the TTS engine? "Saint Auburn" instead of "St. Auburn".

Regards

[BetterRed]

Outside North America the name "St John", note the lack of a full stop, is normally pronounced Sinj'n.

As in the Reverend St John Eyre Rivers (Jane's cousin), the author Madeleine St John, UK politician Norman St John-Stevas and a dozen or so Baron St Johns of Bletso.

BR

[kovidgoyal]

St. can be saint or street probably more. It's not so trivial to do expansion, especially across multiple languages.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Barty

Hi

Piper has a flaw, common with TTS, in that it pauses after abbreviated titles like

Dr. House -> doctor (pause) house.

It also doesn't know some titles, like St. It reads it as suh or sin and treats the . as full stop.

Fixing the TTS may be too hard. Perhaps it's best to do expansion of the most common abbreviated titles prior to sending it to the TTS engine? "Saint Auburn" instead of "St. Auburn".

Regards

What you could do is load the eBook into the editor and search/replace these problematic abbreviations.