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<p>Hi Nicole,</p>
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<p>I would personally suggest to switch up your synth. I think
Eloquence TTS is great and can speak very fast, but I would agree,
it sucks pronouncing especially many modern terms. Eloquence TTS
was made so many years ago and it hasn't been updated. For me,
your sentence, "I made a quesadilla with a tortilla" was read and
even the double L's you're supposed to sound in Spanish,
pronounced correctly with the Microsoft SAPI voices that come with
Windows. I bet you the Vocalizer Expressive TTS that you can
install with JAWS would even pronounce those. <br>
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<p>But this is not the topic of this list. If you need help, write
off-list, or use another tech list like the GUI-Talk or blind Talk
mailing list. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/25/2024 8:54 PM, Nicole Torcolini
via NFBCS wrote:<br>
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Okay, I know that this is not that important, but JAWS
cannot even say </span>Colosseum correctly, not to mention
several words that are in the English dictionary: “I made a
quesadilla from a tortilla.” (but it can pronounce Versailles
correctly?) VoiceOver on iOS is not perfect, but, compared to
JAWS, it is great, especially when it comes to words/names
that are made by combining multiple words. I have been able to
fix a few of the pronunciations by having JAWS pronounce it in
the original language, such as Audi in German, but that does
not always work. I don’t expect it to be perfect, but it
should get the more well known ones right.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nicole<o:p></o:p></p>
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