Pali

English homographs

The pronunciation of the following words is determined by grammatical context. The Amazon Web Services Polly service generally does a good job with homographs. However it sometimes gets them wrong. Here is a list of known homographs that cause problems. Mispronounced homographs can only be fixed by Amazon.

• content
• learned
• lives
• perfumes
• desires
• bows
• unaging

English other mispronunciations (Amy)

• DN 24 #SC 1.18.20: Amy mispronounces shameless (quite noticeably pronouncing the “e” in the middle of the word).

English other mispronunciations (Raveena)

• "keeping what they’ve learned" - says "earned". This is an AWS bug with no current resolution
• "marriages"; (example: DN1, Bodhi, 6/21, 61/94).
• Hilariously, :) (as per: (He recalls:) ‘Then I… ) is read as "smile"; (example: DN1, Bodhi, 7/21, 7/20).
• "Almighty"; (example: DN1, Bodhi, 8/21, 7/25).
• "unsatisfactoriness"; (example: DN1, Bodhi, 8/21, 24/25).
• "rationalist", and "investigations" (I think Raveena, might be keen for us to start non-English support with French ;-) ); (example: DN1, Bodhi, 9/21, 12/14).

Deutsche Aussprachefehler

Kontextbezogen (Vicki)

• „Erwachens“, wie in „Faktoren des Erwachens“, wenn es das letzte Wort des Satzes ist; Beispiel; Gegenbeispiel mit korrekter Aussprache.

Andere (Vicki)

• „Lehrreden“, wie in „Nummerierte Lehrreden 5“, wird „Lehrredden“ ausgesprochen.