Text To Speech Won’t Properly Pronounce Words Like “AAAA”

M1mikyu

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I’m not sure if this belongs in bugs and glitches or suggestions as it’s a bit of both.

When using TTS, if I write something like “AAAAAAAAAAAA” it only says “A”. I’m not sure if this is intended or not, but it can cause some errors with pronunciations or if we are making a silly animation we might want to say “AAAAAHHHHH” versus just “A”.

Once I tried writing “A A A A A” instead, but it just pronounced just “A” multiple times.

Again I’m not sure if this is a bug or if it was intended, but I figured I should point this out. It’s super irritating at times.
(ST feel free to move this to suggestion if it works better there, I wasn’t sure where to put it.)

Last edited by M1mikyu (April 15, 2019 15:23:00)

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Epicness123

Apparently typing “AAAAAHHHHH!” has the same result btw

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M1mikyu

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openPoll

This problem goes away in some other “languages” (like Polish)

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banana439monkey

Can someone verify whose system TTS uses?

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dude341

This is due to the way most text to speech systems interpret letters and is intended.

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M1mikyu

dude341 wrote:
This is due to the way most text to speech systems interpret letters and is intended.

On other TTS I’ve used (such as fromtexttospeech) it works fine

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Seam49

Try just ahh. It is an actual word.

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M1mikyu

Seam49 wrote:
Try just ahh. It is an actual word.

That’s not exactly what I’m saying though, any word with multiple vowels like that only pronounce it as one “a”. And I might want to have someone say “AAAAAAAH!” versus just “AH”

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RokCoder

I would assume that Scratch is using Amazon Polly (or something along those lines) in which case it likely has no control over how the text it passes to the TextToSpeech API is vocalised.

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dude341

M1mikyu wrote:
dude341 wrote:
This is due to the way most text to speech systems interpret letters and is intended.
On other TTS I’ve used (such as fromtexttospeech) it works fine

Okay? Not sure how that's relavant - it just means that TTS system has a different way of doing things.

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CatsUnited

RokCoder wrote:
I would assume that Scratch is using Amazon Polly (or something along those lines) in which case it likely has no control over how the text it passes to the TextToSpeech API is vocalised.

It probably is Amazon Polly, since when you go to add a Speech extension on the editor, it says “Collaboration with Amazon Web Services”

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