[Kde-accessibility] KTTS

[Gary Cramblitt]

On Thursday 23 December 2004 06:41 am, Robert Moore wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> How might the application be enhanced to distinguish two tenses or
> different pronunciations of the same word?
>
> For example, in the English words for the verb "to read": "I had read
> articles but now I can also listen to them" and "I like to read".
>
> Does the synth know the tense it is speaking? If not, could it?

It is up to the synth.  Festival, for example, does do part of speech 
analysis.  If it gets it wrong, it is possible to override using SSML.

 <speak>
 <p>I went down to 32 chocolate <pron sub="street">st.</pron></p>
 </speak>

Otherwise, this is outside the scope of KTTS.
-- 
Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
KDE Text-to-Speech Maintainer
http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php