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Regarding changing stressed accents, I use A Capella Peter. However, the wrong syllable stressed is a problem that I frequently encounter--especially regarding the pronunciation of names and foreign words now considered part of English. Have you considered letting the user choose which syllable to s...

How do I prevent Textaloud 4 from pronouncing a specific character? I do not it to say 'slash' when it encounters either / or \.

How do I tell Textaloud to shift the stressed accent in a word from one syllable to another syllable?


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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 ...

Here is a pipe-dream suggestion for a new feature. Everyday English is often full of foreign words and expressions, not to mention foreign names. One of my pet-peeves is the way TextAlound, using many English voices, mangles the pronunciation of foreign words and foreign names, when speaking English...

Hello Jim Many thanks for your reply. Your work-around works well--but it's not perfect. It works well for adding pauses after a period or exclamation point or question mark followed by two empty spaces. And it does avoid adding pauses after initials and abbreviations. However, it does not add pause...

I would like to insert long pauses at the end of each sentence--but not after every period followed by 1 space, as appears in initials and abbreviations. The period at the end of a sentence is supposed to be followed by two blank spaces. So I would like to lengthen permanently all of the pauses that...