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Ok I'll try that Quantum

I have quite the lexicon built for Ivona Reader right now but I see they have discontinued it so looking to use my lexicon from it. I have a paid for version of TextAloud but due to the reason of the work I put in Ivona Reader I been using that one still. There is a lot of entries and custom setting...

Thanks much for that explanation and example.. I will try that.. thanks

Thanks for the help before.. Now I am working on some Japanese names got the names sounding pretty good but they are spoken too slow. Is there a command in the speech to accelerate the speech for that name? Suzune <speak><phoneme alphabet='IPA' ph='S uzune'/></speak> Ichihara <speak><phoneme alphabe...

Greetings, Thanks for this information; it also seems to work when using 'ipa' instead of 'x-sampa' though you would have to change U to ʊ and E to ɛ (which are the IPA equivalent) Thanks for that. Yeah I am using IPA for my actual phonetics. I am now wondering if it's possible to replace like all ...

Wow.. with your assistance and Ivona I now am able to do long vowels. <speak><phoneme alphabet='X-SAMPA' ph='"U "E'/></speak> the &qote; makes it a long vowel. Now I just will have to spend some major time re-doing the Japanese honorifics for my audio book to sound the most natural.. T...

For お祖母さん ˈoʊˈbɑˈsæŋ (US English) ˈəʊˈbɑˈsæŋ (UK English) You can verify the pronunciation at the following web site: http://www.ivona.com/us/ Choose British English, Amy and enter the following: <phoneme alphabet="ipa" ph="ˈəʊˈbɑˈsæŋ"></phoneme> then press Play. For 御祖母さん ˈoʊˈs...

Greetings, I tried all the forms of Obāsan (in Japanese) that you provided using the following web sites: https://translate.google.com/ http://www.acapela-group.com/ http://www.nuance.com/vocalizer5/flash/index.html The problem is that the pronunciation of Obāsan varies significantly with all three...

Greetings, A good way to deal with interjections like hmm, is to record the sound from a online dictionary and use regular expression, the Pronunciation Dictionary Maintenance and the audio tag to play the recording whenever it comes across the interjection (hmm, in this case). You can find very go...

I have a few problems. 1. currently ... is being read as DOT DOT DOT making it hard to follow along in my audio books. How do I change that to be a pause instead? 2. How can I drag out a sound? For example Hm is so short it sounds like a blip than the sound hmmmm. So how does one use lexicon to make...