Pronunciation of "hour"
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:25 pmI am having a bit of trouble with the word "hour" spoken by the Allison-8kHz voice.
In this phrase:
swift "the hour is now"
the word "hour" is pronounced as expected.
In this phrase:
swift "inches per hour"
the word "hour" is clipped at the beginning causing it sound like "inches per sour"
Inserting a break using ssml tags before "hour" helps, but it is still goofy since the pause introduces blank air.
swift "inches per <break strength='medium' />hour."
Other strengths or timed values are about the same in their affect. Anybody have a suggestion for this?
In this phrase:
swift "the hour is now"
the word "hour" is pronounced as expected.
In this phrase:
swift "inches per hour"
the word "hour" is clipped at the beginning causing it sound like "inches per sour"
Inserting a break using ssml tags before "hour" helps, but it is still goofy since the pause introduces blank air.
swift "inches per <break strength='medium' />hour."
Other strengths or timed values are about the same in their affect. Anybody have a suggestion for this?