[B-Greek] Pronunciation of Greek
Joseph Weaks
j.weaks at tcu.edu
Mon Aug 9 19:30:52 EDT 2004
On Aug 9, 2004, at 5:35 PM, Steven Lo Vullo wrote:
> On Aug 9, 2004, at 2:22 AM, Joseph Weaks wrote:
>> ...Accordance has been reading the Greek and Hebrew bible aloud for
>> nearly as long as I can recall. ...
>
> Yes, but it sounds like a robot on meth. As much as I love Accordance,
> I have never warmed to the speech feature. It's just too unnatural and
> at times unintelligible. I think what George has in mind is something
> like you would find in an English electronic dictionary--a human voice
> pronouncing the word. Check out, for example, <http://www.m-w.com/>.
It has improved with the most recent Apple voice enhancements.
Tweaking the speed made a tremendous difference for me, so I'd have to
disagree, Steven; I found it VERY useful in "reading along" whilst I
prepared for my Doctoral Greek exams. If all Logos is doing is
providing sound files for the words, that makes sense why it can not
read aloud the actual text.
I'd be curious about others' experience regarding speech functionality
for the other bible software programs. Can they read the Greek and
Hebrew text? I assumed they all could.
Joe
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Rev. Joseph A. Weaks
Senior Minister, Bethany Christian Church, Dallas
Ph.D. (Cand.), Brite Divinity School, Ft. Worth
j.weaks at tcu.edu
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