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Subject: Re: Get out Mr Waitzskin Voice of CM8000 or Get him Into School Again...

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 15:30:41 05/26/00

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On May 25, 2000 at 20:11:16, Marc Plum wrote:

>I can't speak for anyone else, but as a speaker of American English, who grew up
>in Iowa, Louisiana, and Illinois, I find Josh Waitzkin perfectly understandable.
>Admittedly, his delivery is somewhat rushed and monotonous.  However, rather
>than searching for the English dialect most intelligible to foreigners, it might
>make more sense to have optional sound sets in other languages.  If you're
>willing to pay for it, it will happen.  Who would you like for the Spanish
>version?

Of course and in that case I would like to see Enrique's voice used at it. Just
curiosity to know how my pla talks in real motion...
Fernando


>
>Personally, I long ago turned off any talk features in the progams I have;
>Junior 6, Fritz 5, and CM6000 have been silent in my house for a long time.
>It's bad enough that they beat me so regularly; I don't want to hear them talk.
>
>Marc
>
>On May 25, 2000 at 18:19:13, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>Hi:
>>If you have some influence in the proceedings of the CM team, I would appreciate
>>very much if you can ask them to replace the current voice of Mr Waitzkin we
>>must tolerate in CM6000 as much as it is, for a non english native  speaking
>>citizen of the world, absolutely nasty and unintelligible. I even bet the same
>>is for any guy of the States that was not raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. An
>>alternative is to ask him an extra effort of correctness in the use and
>>enunciation of his own language, asking him to do goo use of all the sounds that
>>constitutes human talking instead of eating them as if caught in a rush of
>>extreme hunger. Why should we, in the rest of the world, make an extra effort to
>>understand his particular talkative nuances and oddities?
>>Cheers
>>Fernando



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