Re: Just say no ?
Re: Just say no ?
- Subject: Re: Just say no ?
- From: Richard Rönnbäck <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:57:05 +0100
- Thread-topic: Just say no ?
> From: hd
> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 20:45:07 +0000
> Subject: Re: Just say no ?
>
> To my UK English ear the second "no" in Richard's sound file sounds very close
> to "now" and is distinctly different from the first.
Which is what sounds strange to me, and it is definitely a change from
Leopard.
> Richard, try
>
> say "just say no" using "Bruce"
Bruce's "no" sounds as I would expect
>
> "Alex" seems to be the worst offender, and from your sound file I'd guess
> that's the voice selected in System Preferences - Speech - Text to Speech -
> System Voice.
Yes, you are right.
> The ladies (Kathy, Vicki and Victoria) all seem to have had elocution lessons.
>
> You can make Alex talk proper like this:
>
> say "just say noe" using "Alex"
That works, thanks
>
> HTH
English is not my native language, so I certainly cannot claim to know the
preferred pronunciation of "no", but regardless of that, Alex's second "no"
is very different from his first, and also very different from Leopard,
where Alex's "no" sounds identical on both these lines.
Just out of curiosity, for those of you to whom my sample file sounds
correct, is that because you do not distinguish a difference between the two
lines, or because both pronunciations are acceptable to you?
As someone still struggling to get a decent English pronunciations I thought
I at least had "no" right but maybe I have to reconsider that :-)
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