Re: Help with S.A.M.

Allen Bong wrote:
Hi,

I have just downloaded the manual from

http://www.1000bit.it/support/manuali/apple/s.a.m.pdf

and I found that some import words are missing from the ENGLISH TO
PHONETIC DICTIONARY.
As English is not my first language, so could someone please help me
translate the following words into its phonetic words? The phonetic
alphabet is on page 11 of the manual.

Words that I need are :

one, two, three, four, five six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,
twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,
nineteen, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninty,
hundred, thousand, million...

SAM should do a pretty good job on most words *without* phonetic
spellings. Generally, if the text-to-speech algorithm is messing
a word up, you can just try some other spellings until it does a
good job.

For example: one = "wun", two = "too", etc.

My standard TTS diagnostic sentence is "Would you like some pizza?"

As you would expect, some algorithms/synthesizers mangle it pretty
badly. For the Votrax line, the SC-01 and the SSI-263 did reasonably
well after I respelled pizza as "peetsa". Many algorithm/synthesizer
combos don't inflect it like a question, but Votrax/Mockingboard did.

-michael

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