He pronounces it correctly on the SAPI5 version, however. Asakura: He will pronounce it "Asa kyura" sometimes.Type "Armadillun" to make them pronounce it correctly. Armadillain: They will say "Armadillayn".Ariana Grande: Sam will say "Air-riana Grand" in SAPI4.Are: Sam will say "war" Putting a second r makes him say "lar" in SAPI4.When he pronounces the r, it sounds like he's blowing a raspberry before saying "seus". Arceus: He pronounces it as "Ar-see-us" as opposed to the official pronunciation "Ar-kee-us".Arapaima: Sam pronounces it correctly in the SAPI5 version, but the SAPI4 version pronounces it as "errarpayma".Arowana: Sam pronounces it as "errarwana" in the SAPI4 version and "urroana" in the SAPI5 version.Arabic: Microsoft Sam will say "Erarbic" (This happens with other SAPI4 voices).SAPI5 sam will say ack if it's in all lowercase letters. This can be corrected by typing "AP C", "AP K". APC and APK: Sam will say "ack" in SAPI4 no matter if it's capital or not.Anna: Sam says "inna" in the SAPI5 version.Anime: Sam will say "Ow-nyme" in the SAPI5 version.Animax: Microsoft Sam will say "Ah-knee-macks" (but not in the SAPI4 version).Andrea: Sam says it "indrea" unless there is a word before it.Andre: Sam says it "in-drei', unless there is a word before it.Ana: Sam says "inna" in the SAPI4 version.Always: Anna and Sam will say "al-wez" in SAPI4, but the SAPI5 version says it right.He will say it correctly if typed as "Al tee ry nus" Altirhinus: Sam will say "All-turnus".Altaïr as in Assassin’s Creed: Anna and Sam will say "Al-tire" in the SAPI5 version, but the SAPI4 version says "Alter".Alt: Sam will say "Allt" in the SAPI5 version, but the SAPI4 version says it correctly.Said correctly if typed as "Alley o ramus" Alioramus: Sam will say "ull-ee-o-remus".Aliens: Sam will say "ull-yens" in SAPI5.Aleratec: Microsoft Sam will say "al-er-aw-teek" in the SAPI5 version.To make him say it correctly, separate the "air" and "master". Airmaster: Microsoft Sam will say "Airmister" in the SAPI5 version.To make him say it correctly, separate the "air" and "bus". The SAPI5 version of Sam will say "orbis". Airbus: Sam says it as "Airbess", but will say it correctly as two words.He says it correctly in the SAPI4 version.
Aeroplane: Sam pronounces it as "air-ah plane" in the SAPI5 version.He will pronounce "active vision" correctly. In Anna, a brief "wuh" is heard before Activision. Activision: Sam will say "Act-tiv-vis-see-on" in the SAPI5 version, but not in SAPI4.8bit: If you type this in alot of times, Sam will say "8 billit".He will say the name correctly if you type "Six Nine". 6ix9ine: Microsoft Sam says "six-ix-nine-nin" in the SAPI5 version.2, too and two: in davemadson's old videos, Sam pronounced it like t'woo.To do this, type "sse loi" (s'e loi in SAPI4). Sticky Keys XP has also found an accurate way to make him say it correctly in SAPI5. He also says it correctly if a word is placed after it that begins with L or W, such as "soy like" or "soy wheat". However, he can say it correctly if you type a z after the S. It doesn't happen in Mary and Mike, meaning this issue seems to be specific to the voice itself. In SAPI4 (Speakonia), one can aid this mispronunciation by typing "soei" or "Swoi" instead, and SAPI5: "soe" or "ssoy". Most famously, regardless of version, Sam cannot pronounce the word "soy" (also the spelling "soi"), but instead will make a sound " swurghf", resembling a helicopter blade.
Note: Many of the mispronunciations are not in the SAPI4 (used for Speakonia) version originally in Windows 2000, although there are some SAPI4 - only bugs. Following is a list of glitches that have been found. I didn't investigate the Pause method more then i mentioned above, since' i'm happy with the accepted solutions.There are several glitches with Microsoft Sam, Mike, Mary, Anna, David, Hazel, Zira, Mark and Eva, some of which that cause them to pronounce words incorrectly. Replacing each space with a comma, (as mentioned by e.g. saying each word in its own "speak" command, (suggested by Regebro), or.In this NON WORKING example, the sleep() method is executed only after the sentence is spoken: tts = pyTTS.Create() I tried to hook to the OnWord event and add a time.sleep() or tts.Pause(), but apparently even though all the events are caught, they are being processed only at the end of the spoken text, whether i'm using the sync or async flag. I'm using python and pyTTS module (on windows, since it's using SAPI)
with some voices, the words are almost connected to each other, which makes the speech more difficult to understand. Is it possible to extend the gap between spoken words when using text to speech with SAPI5 ?