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New Simple enough
It fails on proper names.

You should see what google voice->text does with my name when pronounced with an Sri Lankan accent.

No voice software will EVER get proper names without a lifetime of exception training.
Just like us. No rules apply, so it has to be learned, not programmed. The same spelling yields many different sounds depending on what person is being referred to.

This is an impossible problem, it CANNOT work out of the box.
New It'll get better.
If you're like me, you need a few minutes to understand many of the accents on Masterpiece (Theatre) when they have one of their mysteries on. The software is/will learning/learn as well.

It's a difficult problem, but not extraordinarily so. Better algorithms, faster processors, faster storage solves these problems over time.

Drum had a good post about this last week - http://motherjones.c...future-human-race

Cheers,
Scott.
New Ha! Imagine what it would do with Greg's
--

Drew
New Huh?
For some reason I don't consider midwest to be tough to follow.

But Masterpiece Theater? No way. I don't watch most brit shows, can't understand them at all. Ab Fab was the last one.
New No, Greg's name...
Particularly his last name.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
New Yeah....
Formerly, the Dutch spelling of the name was (pre-1935 when the family changed it as a whole):

Fockert

And yes, some "friends" I have from the Netherlands, call me the original pronunciation, which sound decidedly exactly like what you are thinking.

We've got some serious relation in the Netherlands... many use the Fockert name in products and websites. Some are pretty large also.

Folkert is actually a *FIRST* name in the Netherlands.
New So if you had a female relative who ran a convent ...
--

Drew
New Yep...
Head Mother Fockert.

DING DING DING!
New In Charge,,, even.
New Aussie accents seem to be hard for these programs.
Though that might be exacerbated by a smaller market. The difficult has something to do with our vowel pronounciation, I'm not sure exactly what.

Wade.
Static Scribblings http://staticsan.blogspot.com/
New Re: Aussie accents seem to be hard for these programs.
It's because everything you say is a question?
New Maybe?
Static Scribblings http://staticsan.blogspot.com/
New Re: Maybe?
Certainly is, cobber?

http://mittenz.wordp...t-to-whining-yes/
New Minor point.
You do have to distinguish between the native version and the exported version, however. And the exaggerated version comedians use.

Wade.
Static Scribblings http://staticsan.blogspot.com/
New Vowel drift
http://terpconnect.u...Chang_ICPhS17.pdf
http://en.wikipedia....Great_Vowel_Shift

A good speech coach can take an American with no foreign language experience and, just by rotating the pronunciation of the vowels, give them quite passable foreign accents in an amazingly short time.

I was in a class where we all picked up French accents in about an hour. I'm sure a native would have found it odd, but other Americans -- our target audience -- would have thought we spoke English as a second language. German was harder, because there are a lot of glottal stops we're not used to.
--

Drew
New This is true.
I got the tag end of a program on the radio a few years ago about how the New Zealand accent developed, and it is an entirely vowel-shifted one. Australian largely is, too, but less pronounced.

The best advice is from people who make drama TV outside the US for US syndication because they have to work with locals. Renaissance Pictures did this for Hercules and Xena and there was a brief chapter in one of the merchandising books explaining what they taught (both shows were filmed in NZ and Lucy Lawless is actually a Kiwi).

I also saw more recently a very interesting program about how English developed. There are people today who can and do speak Middle English from before The Great Vowel Shift. It sounds odd to our ears and is much more Baltic-sounding, but fascinating nonetheless.

Wade.
Static Scribblings http://staticsan.blogspot.com/
New Merry Mary got married.
http://www4.uwm.edu/...ticmaps/q_15.html

Neat stuff. Thanks for the links.

Cheers,
Scott.
New I wanna see that kind of thing for the world!
Static Scribblings http://staticsan.blogspot.com/
New That's the best I've been able to find. :-)
     anyone using dragon? - (boxley) - (27)
         Why? -NT - (folkert) - (2)
             the tv add looked pretty neat -NT - (boxley) - (1)
                 "select dreary" - (folkert)
         Long time ago - (crazy)
         PK answers. - (Another Scott) - (22)
             Big Jed had a light on. -NT - (folkert) - (2)
                 No no no - (malraux) - (1)
                     Ok... then this HAS to be right!!!! - (folkert)
             Simple enough - (crazy) - (18)
                 It'll get better. - (Another Scott)
                 Ha! Imagine what it would do with Greg's -NT - (drook) - (16)
                     Huh? - (crazy) - (15)
                         No, Greg's name... - (malraux) - (4)
                             Yeah.... - (folkert) - (3)
                                 So if you had a female relative who ran a convent ... -NT - (drook) - (2)
                                     Yep... - (folkert) - (1)
                                         In Charge,,, even. -NT - (folkert)
                         Aussie accents seem to be hard for these programs. - (static) - (9)
                             Re: Aussie accents seem to be hard for these programs. - (pwhysall) - (3)
                                 Maybe? -NT - (static) - (2)
                                     Re: Maybe? - (pwhysall) - (1)
                                         Minor point. - (static)
                             Vowel drift - (drook) - (4)
                                 This is true. - (static)
                                 Merry Mary got married. - (Another Scott) - (2)
                                     I wanna see that kind of thing for the world! -NT - (static) - (1)
                                         That's the best I've been able to find. :-) -NT - (Another Scott)

And she wasn't kidding, either, 'cause in came the biggest, meanest looking haddock I'd ever seen come down the pike. He was covered with mussels.
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