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Depending on which Acapela Phoneme dictionary (Lexicon Editor) is associated with your Acapela voice changing the stress of a word could be easy or challenging. Even with Acapela's PronunciationEditor tool, it is still possible to import a special-formatted-text file into PronunciationEditor with t...

The Phoneme Dictionary (Lexicon Editor) is the most important feature of any voice. Why would you take away the excellent Lexicon Editor that comes with Acapela voices. For example, the Lexicon Editor that comes with UK English voices allows you to use French phonemes. Acapela voices has the worse p...

The information given above is incorrect. Depending on which Acapela Phoneme dictionary (Lexicon Editor) is associated with your Acapela voice changing the stress of a word could be easy or challenging. So the first thing you need to do is to find out from TextAloud where the Acapela Phoneme diction...

Thanks Quantum,

I am aware that {{Audio=C:\\snd\\crowdboo.wav}} works with Ivona SSML voices in TextAloud but it is a SAPI 5 audio tag.

The audio SSML tag does not work:

<audio src="C:\\SND\\crowdboo.wav"/>

or

<audio src="C:\SND\crowdboo.wav"/>

Your analysis of the problem is all wrong. If TextAloud is the only program running and you have a TextAloud dictionary with appropriately 100,000 entries which is trying to read a large article the problem will occur: TextAloud will take from half an hour to two hours to start reading the article w...

Why should a user with 32G of Ram, have to wait forever for TextAloud to start reading?

Greetings, Can you provide step by step instructions on how to create a RamDisk that can be used to run Ivona Voices with the standard set up used by TextAloud. Can this be done using DOS commands only? Will the TextAloud reading start time be quicker, when using large dictionaries, if the RamDisk i...

I do not understand why you would stick with using method you are using when it just as easy to use either of pronunciations I provided above for you.

P.S. your comments are also very Ageist.

Enter <Pron sym="k ax n - d ih 2 sh ax - n ae 1 l ax - t iy"/> with Respell or k ax n - d ih 2 sh ax - n ae 1 l ax - t iy with Phoneme Sources: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conditionality https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/ee431828(v=vs.85) The...

This a well know problem with Acapela voices (especially Acapela American voices). The pause is caused by the double quotes ("). I am very sure I posted on this issue sometime ago or raised the issue with TextAloud. Since I am stuck using Acapela 8.25 because of its superior Lexicon Editor, I j...

I know exactly what you meant. You need to get help from TextAloud on how to use the Pronunciation Dictionary Maintenance to respell a word then you can use the IPA pronunciations I supplied to properly pronounce your Vietnamese names. There is nothing wrong with TextAloud or with the way it is pron...

IPA Pronunciations:

Nguyễn /nyˈen/

Trần /ˈdrɑːn/

Văn /ˈvɑːn/


It is easier to find these names in standard references if rendered without diacritics: Nguyễn as Nguyen.

A few comments on your use of /F AH S1 S AH D S1/ to phonetically respell facade". 1. In general, voices that support sapi5 phonemes support placing emphasis very well. 2. Your phonetic respelling of facade is not correct: If Microsoft Hazel allows pronunciation when S1 is included in phoneme s...

<phoneme alphabet="ipa" ph="oʊ, laɪf əz ˈbɪgər ɪts ˈbɪgər ðən jʊ ənd jʊ ər nɑt mi ðə lɛŋkθs ðət aɪ wɪl goʊ tʊ ðə ˈdɪstəns ɪn jər aɪz oʊ noʊ, aɪv sɛd tu mʌʧ aɪ sɛt ɪt ʌp ðæts mi ɪn ðə ˈkɔrnər ðæts mi ɪn ðə ˈspɑtˌlaɪt ˈluzɪŋ maɪ rɪˈlɪʤən ˈtraɪɪŋ tə kip ʌp wɪð ju ənd aɪ doʊnt noʊ ɪf aɪ k...

This problem was occurring on Saturday (April 30, 2016) but I just tested again and there is no problem. So today I am not able to duplicate this problem.

Using the SAPI 5 pronounce tag and the pause tag, in combination, on the respell line crashes TextAloud:


<Pron sym="ih n 1"/> {{Pause=0.50}}

I am currently using TextAloud Version 3.0.87 and would like to update to Version 3.0.92.

The release notes for Version 3.0.92 only indicates "Minor updates".

Can you elaborate on what these "Minor updates" are?

The following post may help you: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6871&p=16349&hilit ... ick#p16349

That's all fine but I think, the user should purchase TextAloud before blackmailing for features he/she would like. Why can this person just ask for help.

You are missing the point, up until a week ago the user claims that he has not purchased TextAloud: see his post viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6678#p16369

If you have not purchased TextAloud, how do you know this feature is not available in TextAloud?

How do you know if you are running Firefox in 32 or 64 bit mode? Can you provide step by step instruction on how one can change from Firefox 64 bit mode to 32 bit. I am guessing if the Firefox on one's system is in the directory C:\Program Files (x86)\ you are running Firefox in the 32-bit mode? Did...

See the following Post for a possible update issue for AT&T UK English Voices

Greetings, I tested your sample provided test using Acapela's Graham: "on the table, which is blue, there is a book" it reads like: "on the table. which is blue. There is a book I found the intonation (pitch changes) for both sentences as would be expected and there is a distinct diff...

MS, I am guessing that "ran-dezz-vouse" is your representation of how the voice you are using pronounces the French word rendezvous and "Don Quicks-oat" is your representation of how your voice pronounces the Spanish name Don Quixote. Since both rendezvous and Don Quixote have es...

MS, This is why it is important to specify which Text to Speech (TTS) Voice you are using. Some English voices will pronounce Richard Wagner using the German pronunciation. Most American English voices will pronounce Richard Wagner using standard American English. Since most educated people are awar...

MS, For example, an American would not say "ran-dezz-vouse" or "Don Quicks-oat" or "Rich-chard Wagg-ner." The above quote only has meaning to you. I suspect you are asking what is correct way to pronounce the name of the German composer Richard Wagner. In order to get h...

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Jim answered your query perfectly. The problem is that your request was poorly structured.

In the future, it might be a good idea to list all the possibilities you are requesting help for.

Deleting or ignoring superscripts (footnotes) is the wrong approach since these representations (usually in the form of public.1, public.2, etc.) contain very good information that you can use regular expressions to pronounce properly and convey that these are footnotes or endnotes.