[EAS] Why we need Text-To-Speech

[Dave Turnmire]

On 3/18/2012 10:25 PM, Clay Freinwald wrote:
> Hi Sean -
>
> I was just playing with one of the Text to Speech sites on line ...Just for
> drill, I asked it to pronounce some local (to this area) names
>
> PUYALLUP (City just east of Tacoma)  - It said it perfectly.
>
> STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA (Body of water between US and Vancouver Island,
> Canada)  - It said it perfectly
>
> SEQUIM  (Town on the south side of the Strait of Juan de Fuca) - It called
> it - SEE-QUIM.    So I changed it to Squim and it did fine.   This is a
> classic case of know how to write for a Text Reader.
>
This HUMAN doesn't know how to pronounce the first or last example of 
above... and I'm afraid to try pronouncing the second...

Dave