On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Ray Saintonge wrote:
David 'DJ' Hedley wrote:
I agree bar the major con of name pronunciation. Even taking your own surname - Rabagliati; how many computers could pronounce that correctly? Also, implementing automatic audio conversion would presumably slow down Wikipedia considerably.
When it comes to that surname the Olympic gold medalist with that name made us aware that it is pronounced as though the "ag" were not in the name.
Whew - people that know more than me ..
After moving to Scotland (hastily) over 100 years ago we have put the a back in, but the g is still gone.
Which indeed proves your point regarding voice recordings.
Wonderful extra info, but voice deployment needs orders of magnitude more work than text to speech, which surely will improve.
So pragmatism would choose text to speech as well.
Cheers, Andy! [few people in meatspace know my last name]