Timwi wrote:
Secondly, what is stopping speakers of various accents from speaking various articles? Just because an article has already been spoken by a Brit, doesn't exactly make it impossible for a Singaporean to contribute *their* version too, if they think the Brit is oh so incomprehensible.
Would you like to hear *me* speak something? Just because someone can write doesn't mean they have a particularly good speaking voice.
Lastly, you are *definitely* not helping your credibility by asserting that an automated text-to-speech system would universally be better received than natural recordings! I can easily understand a wide range of English accents when they are spoken slowly, but I am afraid that text-to-speech systems are just painful to listen to.
Yes, they're all disjointed American :)