Holy Guacamole! Avocados and Synthesized Speech

Avocado aficionados are reeling with the pronunciation of Haas avocados

VoiceXMLKit sample compiles and runs an example VoiceXML script that illustrates grocery store inquiries providing information about daily specials on demand. Part of the example script includes a reference to Haas avocados that English synthesizers mispronounce.

Speech synthesis is used in concert with a variety of technologies. Pronunciation is a universal issue in all speech synthesis. Discover how lexicons, Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), and VoiceXML intersect for great sounding synthesized speech.

See Knowledge Base article H062404 that explains how to adjust the pronunciations in the Developer Workbench to hear the difference in synthesized speech.

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