How synthetic speech and text-to-speech works

[kestrell]

Kes: I actually don't listen to my screen reader nearly this fast--my usual speed is only somewhat faster than an average speaker, I would call it highly caffeinated geek speed--and, while I have issues listening to older lesser quality TTS, II don't aspire to the higher quality, human-sounding TTS for most purposes: most of the time, the TTS is rendered kind of invisibl inside my head, equivalent to my internal reading voice.
https://tink.uk/notes-on-synthetic-speech/#main-content

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[jesse_the_k]

Received Pronunciation--the high status British accent, or as Merriam-Webster puts it:

[kestrell]

Whatever you typed after the colon didn't show up with my screen reader: was it some sort of funky linguistic glyphs?

[jesse_the_k]

Fascinating -- it was a quote in markdown format -- greater-than space at the start of each single line break. Further complicated by me responding in my email client and mailing it back to DW

Trying again as plain text

a traditionally prestigious form of English spoken at the English public schools, at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and by many educated British people elsewhere

I was surprised to see this only dates from 1913.

More excellent discussions at Language Hat: https://languagehat.com/?s=Received+Pronunciation+

[kestrell]

Thanks for reposting, especially as I am kind of a nutter about most things Oxbridge, including the particularities of speech. I wonder if the form of speech became more elite as the society became more mixed around the time of WW1: I've heard that class in Britain is not a matter of how you dress, but the class system is expressed in its accents.