Hi Eric:
I do have some experience with writing a simple adapter for Dutch text to speech long ago, so I am actually aware of the limitations of the technology. Even now, youtubers who prefer to stay anonymous use annoyingly artifically sounding speech engines. I think I even have a chip from back when it was important to offload speech output from the CPU to dedicated hardware somewhere in my collection:
I made a couple of Arduino projects. One drove a SpeakJet speech synthesiser chip. I tried to make that American voice express Australian phrases. So I discovered some dialectical differences.
American English is rhotic--whereas Australian English is non-rhotic. English orthography (spelling)--does not guide how a speaker pronounces a word. Take for example "I drove my car to the bar to play cards.". An Aussie says "I drove my kaa to the baa to play kaads". As in "Baa, baa, black sheep", without pronouncing any `r's. Australian English Also has the triphthong "oua". So an Aussie pronounces "Once one was", as "Ooanss ouann ouazz".
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