In article <6553812f50.r...@user.minijem.plus.com>, Richard Porter <r...@minijem.plus.com> wrote: > On 18 Feb 2009 David J. Ruck wrote:
> > The sort of modern natural voice synthesisers we are using in screen > > readers for the visiually impared, have all sorts of parameters which > > you can use to change the emphaisis. They actually read passages of > > text superbly well with, and honestly, sometimes it is extremely > > difficult to tell it appart from an actual recording. > Unlike some sat-nav systems I could mention. I was with a friend in > Germany when the sat-nav said in a harsh female American voice, "turn > left into maynzer strass" which should of course have been Mainzer > Straße. Very embarrassing if you have natives in the car! Let's stay on topic (NetSurf), please. Michael -- Michael Drake (tlsa) http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
