Tim Danner

Paul Lamere gives a glimpse into the complexities of doing real text-to-speech in English. The 60,000 word dictionary in FreeTTS is just for the exceptions that aren’t handled correctly by the 13,000 states in the letter-to-sound state machine! But the cool part of the post is a poem that illustrates the problem. It reminds me of a silly sentence I heard years ago: “The tough coughs as he ploughs the dough.” (via Tim Bray)

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