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NigelO
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 Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject: TTS pronunciation |
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Having spent over three years with Copilot 3 on my Compaq Navigation System, I can handle the male TTS voice that a few of you SatNav connoiseurs seem to find somewhat annoying.
Having just bought CP6, I now notice a couple of backwards steps:
1) CP3 used to correctly pronounce "turn left on A5.." with "A" pronounced as "ay". However, CP6 pronounces it as "uh", as in "can't someone write a [uh] program without bugs.."
2) CP6 uses street names far less than CP3 - in CP3 if there was a street name, it gave it. Now it only seems to use streetnames if there is no road number.
Anyway, while hacking around, I've found the "ubuild.txt" file which appears to give some pronunciation help to the TTS system
it reads:
| Quote: | UKEnglish
calle #K'ahLex#
copilot #KowP'ayLohT#
invalid #ihNV'aeL"ihD#
live #Lay'V#
login #L'ohGihN#
strasse #STR'aqSer#
via #V'iyaq#
vägen #V'eyGexN#
weg #VeyG#
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What do you reckon? is this somewhere where I can enter the following line:
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neil01
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| Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:53 pm Post subject: Re: TTS pronunciation |
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| NigelO wrote: | | ...CP3 used to correctly pronounce "turn left on A5.." with "A" pronounced as "ay". However, CP6 pronounces it as "uh", as in "can't someone write a [uh] program without bugs.." |
Many parts of the country would say that it has been corrected! |
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NigelO
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| Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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adding that line to the file didn't make any difference  |
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Bazzer
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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I can't contain myself any longer  . I've got to ask....
Does it still pronounce 'Miles' as 'Meelez'
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NigelO
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Does it still pronounce 'Miles' as 'Meelez' |
Nope - perfect English
To be honest, apart from the occasional amusing pismronunciation, I've been amazed at how damn good the TTS is. |
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NigelO
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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UPDATE
Not exactly a pronunciation issue, but certainly TTS-related
I noticed yesterday on my way into Birmingham what I believe to be a problem with CP6's TTS - it baulks at brackets in the text.
I had always liked the fact that on CP3, the voice command went something like
| Quote: | | "1 mile ahead, turn left on A452, Chester Road" |
On screen, this was shown as "A452 (Chester Road)"
However, CP6 never gives me the "Chester Road" bit, just the "Turn left" and "A452"
I thought nothing more of it, putting this down to "progress" at ALK
However, yesterday, (approaching Spaghetti junction) the on-screen command looked something like:"Birmingham (City (A38 - M))"
All I got from my PDA was an entirely inadequate
I'm guessing that the presence of an open bracket throws the TTS
Could this also be the reason why the speed camera warnings don't get recited in full? |
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iankb
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| Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 3:18 am Post subject: |
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The '@' sign stops CoPilot from reciting any more text in the speed camera message. Converting the '@' character to ' AT ' solves the problem. Not all punctuation does that, in that ':' is (rather annoyingly) recited as 'colon'.
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mallard
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| Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 12:22 am Post subject: |
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If you look just under your Quoted file you will find the file "userdict 004," (as below) may be changing both the files your idea may work .
calle K'ahLex 02
copilot KowP'ayLohT 02
invalid ihNV'aeL"ihD 20
live Lay'V 02
login L'ohGihN 02
strasse STR'aqSer 02
via V'iyaq 02
vägen V'eyGexN 02
weg VeyG 02
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