New User frustrated with the pronunciation dictionary option
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 12:12 pm
I am a new user of Text Aloud, but I have experience in working with other Text-To-Speech programs. In other TTS programs, the pronunciation dictionary is fairly simplistic, but the pronunciation is changed after I enter it in. However, with Text Aloud, I have no idea why a particular Dictionary won't work (in this case, Acapela Graham). I have 13-14 voices, and when I have the voice set to that particular voice in the toolbar area of the article, it reads my new pronunciations that I have made for that voice correctly; however, when I insert a voice tag into the article (for example, <voice required="name = Audrey16"> ........ <voice required="name = Graham22k"> ....) the pronunciation dictionary I have for Acapela Graham is not accessed at all; it will only access it if I go above and change the default voice setting to Acapela Graham. I am very new, so this is my first problem I've come across regarding this issue, and I don't know how other voices are affected (so far, I've only noticed the Graham voice having this peculiarity) . Acapela voices have been giving me lots of problems in general, but I don't think it's limited to just these voices. Also, Graham is a British Voice, and I am unsure if that is an added hurdle to what I am trying to accomplish.
To sum up, my problem is this: I want to change the voice within an article to Acapela Graham (British), but when I insert the Graham voice tag in the article <voice required="name = Graham22k">, it does not utilize the dictionary I created for Graham. In creating this dictionary, I went to Pronunciation Dictionary Maintenance under "Tools", and selected "New Dictionary". I chose "Acapela Graham" voice when the "New Dictionary" window popped up, named the dictionary, and I have the "Dictionary Enabled" box checked. I edited the words I wanted pronounced differently, and, after creating those, I made sure the box next to the dictionary name was checked, as well as the boxes next to all of the entries. In going back to the article, I noticed the changes were not utilized by the voice until I changed the default voice, as previously mentioned.
My question is, therefore: How can I change pronunciation of words within an article after the Graham voice tag has been entered and those changes are not recognized by the pronunciation dictionary I made for the voice? Thank you for any insight you can give me.
To sum up, my problem is this: I want to change the voice within an article to Acapela Graham (British), but when I insert the Graham voice tag in the article <voice required="name = Graham22k">, it does not utilize the dictionary I created for Graham. In creating this dictionary, I went to Pronunciation Dictionary Maintenance under "Tools", and selected "New Dictionary". I chose "Acapela Graham" voice when the "New Dictionary" window popped up, named the dictionary, and I have the "Dictionary Enabled" box checked. I edited the words I wanted pronounced differently, and, after creating those, I made sure the box next to the dictionary name was checked, as well as the boxes next to all of the entries. In going back to the article, I noticed the changes were not utilized by the voice until I changed the default voice, as previously mentioned.
My question is, therefore: How can I change pronunciation of words within an article after the Graham voice tag has been entered and those changes are not recognized by the pronunciation dictionary I made for the voice? Thank you for any insight you can give me.