[DECtalk] update on fonixTalk in other languages

[Tony Baechler]

I would disagree.  I do not speak other languages except English, but I do 
know there are Chinese speech synthesizers.  Do you yourself speak the 
language for which you were launching the sample text?  In other words, if 
you yourself are not familiar with the language, how do you know the text 
was even written in hat language?  I am not doubting you, but I am trying to 
make a point.  As you probably know, there are synthesizers for Spanish, 
German, Italian, etc.  If you take a piece of English text and have the 
Italian language synthesizer read it, it will sound like English with an 
Italian accent.  Unless you are quite certain that the text is in fact 
Korean and not Chinese, Russian, Japanese or English, you could be running 
into a similar situation.  The better way would be for her to type a few 
sentences in her native language and have it read back the text.  All of 
that being said, I found the DECtalk 4.61 British English to be terrible to 
the point that I switched my firmware back to 4.2CD American English.  I 
should also note that I've heard a number of British and Australian people 
mention that they use American English synthesizers.  For software speech, I 
prefer British English myself.

On 7/25/2015 6:03 PM, Carlos Fernandez via Dectalk wrote:
> Well hello. I recently had the opportunity to meet up with an old friend
> whose parents are Korean. While this friend is not fluent in Korean, she
> does speak it well. I decided to launch up fonixTalk, pop in the sample
> Korean text, and demonstrate it for her. Her only reaction was uproarious
> laughter followed by, "What is this?". I believe this speaks to fonix's
> general inability when it comes to Asian languages.
>
> Carlos
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