<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I have tried this on DECtalk and it says ventriloquist mostly fine. Maybe it's a version difference. You could simply turn on phoneme input with [:phone on] and then replace the word ventriloquist with [vehntr'ihlaxkwihst], don't forget the brackets.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 26 May 2017, at 12:45, Blake Roberts <<a href="mailto:beroberts@hughes.net" class="">beroberts@hughes.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="Section1" style="page: Section1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><font size="2" face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" class="">Hi,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><font size="2" face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" class="">Snoopi is working on a talk he plans to give in a few months using Dectalk as his voice. Dectalk says ventriloquist wrong. He has tried entering it with normal spelling and changed the spelling in an attempt to have it pronounced correctly. Does anyone know how to make Dectalk say ventriloquist? Snoopi would be using it in his talk, not singing it.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><font size="2" face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" class="">Blake<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Dectalk mailing list</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="mailto:Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>