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To: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi>
Cc: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: BSD voice synthesis
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 04 Aug 1999 13:15:35 +0200
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Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi> writes:
> I certainly don't expect any of the available voices to be able to
> pronounce Finnish names correctly, even with phonetic specifications.

If the software were *designed* to speak Finnish, I'd expect it to
cope with Finnish much better than it currently does with English,
seeing as you guys have nearly phonetic spelling.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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