French Ears

[Michael Kann]

Dear Francophiles,

Thank you very much for the feedback on the computer speech.

Sorry to be a pest. Would it be a bother to compare these two websites and let me know which one sounds better?

http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php#top

http://imtranslator.net/translate-and-speak/

--- on this site you have to uncheck the box in the upper left if you only want the pronunciation, not a translation

Thanks to all,

Michael



--- On Wed, 12/14/11, Francis Nugent Dixon <effendi at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

From: Francis Nugent Dixon <effendi at wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: French Ears
To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 5:29 PM

Hi from Beautiful Brittany.

Michael wrote :

> I'm not interested in the translations, just the quality of the French accent.

Michael, it's the best French speech I have ever heard (I have 45 years of
French, in France, under my belt !)

However, computer speech is monotonous (great difficulty in placing tonic
accents).

I think the weather will change tomorrow
i THINK the weather will change tomorrow
i think the WEATHER will change tomorrow
i think the weather will CHANGE tomorrow
i think the weather will change TOMORROW

Same sentence - at least five ways of saying it !

And this is just the tonic accent in a complete word. When you have a
multi-syllable word, placement of the tonic accent is capital.
Take any three or four syllable word and say it with the tonic accent
in the wrong place. Odds are that even an Englishman would say ......
"I beg your pardon" !

Although tonic accents are far less important to French speech, they do exist !

However, forgetting the tonic accent, the FRENCH accent on this site is damned good !

HTH

-Francis

"Nothing should ever be done for the first time !"



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