Differences between spellings in British/Au and US english

[tphiau]

I have a dictionary question / request.
I use Australian spelling (essentially British spelling).
If I use US voices that are based on US dictionaries, say like Heather or Ryan, and use Aussie spellings for words like:
... scepticism, favourite, envisaged, humourless
I get quite odd pronunciations. To get this right, I need to do a respell for every word which has a different British-US spelling.
I have been able to write rules which deal with some of these, but its quite labour intensive.

I have had some success with constructs like:
... recognise, realisation, civilisation, colour, humour, favour, favoured
But not:
... humourless, or favourite, for example
Is there any way of correcting this difference in software? Or providing a list of these variant respellings as a standard dictionary addition?

Oddly, the Australian scansoft voices are able to pronounce US spellings correctly. UK Graham gets most of them too.
Thanks,
Tony

[PHenry1026]

Greetings Tony,

From your posting I was not sure if you tried the following two approaches:

1. Regex Solution:

(?<=^|\s)favou?r(?=\s)

Respell: favor

2. Phoneme Solution (TA3 Phoneme Dictionary or Your Language Phoneme Dictionary):

Word: favour

Phoneme: f ey 1 v er

Personally, I prefer the Phoneme Solution which may be more labor intensive to implement.

The regex solution could be generalized further like favou?r(ites?)? to handle different permutations:

Respell: favor$1


u? mean the u is optional.

Percy Henry



Percy Henry

[kremesch]

I have the same issue because Canadian spelling is like British.

I usually only make one edit per word as a regular expression that works for different spelling variations though.

for example:

Code: Select all

Text Matching: Regular Expression

Word: colour*

Pronunciation: color

What this does is it changes the word so that TA will also correctly pronounce most variations of the word(s) colour, colours, coloured, colouring, etc... with just the one edit.