Hi Bud,
The problem that you're having with words being mispronounced that
are connected by an em dash is caused by the particular speech engine that
you are using. I use ETI eloquence and have no pronunciation problems. If
you use a different speech engine, I'll bet you notice a difference.
Mayrie
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Hi Cindy,
Thanks for the info. I'll try it the next time. I'm not too
familiar about the various kind of dashes. I use the dash just to
the right of zero at times. Would that one do and should there be a
space before and after? I'll try it on an old book here that I have
already sent in just in case I ruin it.
Good luck to me.
Bud
At 12:21 AM 8/29/2008, you wrote:
>yes and no. We are supposed to keep em dashes without spaces, but
>actually we are supposed to change them from em dashes to double
>single dashes, or hyphens, perhaps for the very reason you mention.
>
>Cindy
>
>
> One thing bothers me not just about this book but
> > in most
> > books they seem to use a dash between two words with no
> > spaces, and
> > when it reads back, at least with Kurzweil, it
> > mispronounces a lot of
> > it and usually doesn't sound the first letter of the
> > second
> > word. This has been bothering me for some time now. Are
> > we just
> > supposed to leave it that way? Anybody else running into
> > that?
> >
> >
> >
> > Bud Schwab
> > W 6 Z Y P
> > Malibu, California
> >
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