APPENDIX O: DECtalk SPEECH TIPS
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Appendix O: Helpful DECtalk Speech Tips
Sometimes a word has two different pronunciations. For instance, the word "record" can be
pronounced as it is in this sentence, "We kept a RECord of how many people attended the
museum opening." The word can also be pronounced as it is in this sentence, "Our speech
teacher let us reCORD our voices on a tape recorder."
The way a word is most often spoken is the way your device will pronounce the word. In this
case, if you type "record" it is pronounced "RECord." If you want the alternate pronunciation for
the word, activate the
CTRL key and then the SPACE key. Type the word you want and add a
space after it.
If you store a word using CTRL SPACE, every time you retrieve that word your device will
speak the alternate pronunciation of the word.
We recommend that you do not store alternate pronunciations in the Dictionary, since they
are the less frequently used pronunciations of words.
The next few pages contain a list of words that have alternate pronunciations which DECtalk
speech already knows. There is also a list of all the abbreviations that you can use which
DECtalk speech knows how to pronounce.
The last part of this appendix explains how your device and the DECtalk speech board handle
numbers.
You can find a phoneme list on pages 304-305.
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