I'm afraid I just don't hear this with eloquence; probably one of those very personal things, but I doubt you can accomodate this type of speech effect with a dictionary.
Chip > -----Original Message----- > From: Katherine Moss [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:33 PM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: RE: To all Natively English speaking users - I need > some feedback: > > The big problem with it though is that it puts the wrong > stress on the rong syllable. For instance, we stress the 12 > in 2012 and not the 20. We stresses the 20, the first > syllable instead of the second like normal English speakers do. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chip Orange [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: To all Natively English speaking users - I need > some feedback: > > Hi David, > > I think our American English version of Eloquence may be > different than the one you're using? Because as Mike and > others have pointed out, it is already speaking a 4-digit > year in the way you are proposing (the first two digits as a > number, followed by the last two digits as a number). > > I think you are likely to find this varies from synthesizer > to synthesizer, and within each one probably varies from one > language version to the next. > > Good luck with this! > > Chip > > > > ________________________________ > > From: David [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:51 AM > To: WE English mailing list > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: To all Natively English speaking users - I need some > feedback: > > > In my local Non-English language, we often use to > divide the four digit year number, into two groups of > two-digits. That is, the year 1995, would be pronounced as 19 95. > > As I am working on the Extended Dictionary app, that > has been anounced on the list earlier, I wanted to know, what > is the official way of pronouncing year numbers in English. > Or, at least, what is the general wish of the community. As > you all will have noticed, Eloquence by standard wants to > read out the year as a full four-digit number. At least to > me, I find that rather wearisome, as the number 1981 would > produce more verbage, than would 19 81. > > The app is doing quite a bit of Date handling, and > there is a chance here to modify the way of reading year > numbers. And, just to calm you all down, the stuff can easily > be modified by the end-user. Yet, I want to know, if it would > be the wish of the community, to have some kind of modified > pronounciation of the years, shipping with the app. > > All feedback will be appreciated. Thanks alot, > > David > (The Author of the Extended Dictionary app) > > PS: The Extended Dictionary appp is currently in its > Beta-testing process. Hopefully, it will be made available to > the community later this summer. Still, this question goes to > the whole community, since it has been considered of vital > importance. All the modification the app will be performing > to any speech output, can be fully controled by the user. > Even if the app ships with a set of modifications, the user > is free to do what he wants with the shipped entries. > > > >
