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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