Posted February 28, 20214 yr While we wait for the BJSC 132 results to take place later this evening, I thought I would pick up on a running conversation some of us were having during the listenthrough earlier in the week. The question is how to correctly pronounce your country name. Having found a free and easy to use “Text to Speech” website, I was able to get a correct pronunciation of my country name; Zanmatony [zan-matt-oh-ny] I also checked the pronunciation of the current host, Danæviia [Dan-eye-via] Have a go at entering your country name into this search box and see if the pronunciation is what you expected it to be; https://wideo.co/text-to-speech/
February 28, 20214 yr Well I can confirm that the website is WRONG and it's pronounced Dan-ayy-via :D ayy like the letter A that is. :P
February 28, 20214 yr They pronounced Rolloland correctly. It's Rollo rhyming with Hollow, not like Rolo chocolates.
February 28, 20214 yr Beaver, like the animal, and donia, as in a land made of dough, pronounced, doe-knee-ah
February 28, 20214 yr Mine says Air Roach. come on surviving the apocalypse!! Is yours not Air-rock? :o
February 28, 20214 yr Is yours not Air-rock? :o that's how i intended it! but not according to wardy's text-to-speech :lol:
February 28, 20214 yr I've always pronounced mine Flow-ta-veek, I think that is right but I'm not 100% sure.
February 28, 20214 yr that's how i intended it! but not according to wardy's text-to-speech :lol: Oh I see!!! Just tried mine through that and apparently I have been contradicted. It should be F. L. Jot-a-vick
February 28, 20214 yr I feel like mine is pretty simple, but: All-tear (as in that which you cry) Mew-knee-Linst. The speech thing seems to go for: Al-tear (as in to rip something) Moo-knee-linst which is very wrong.
February 28, 20214 yr The text to speech said mine sort of correctly although slightly weirdly (too much emphasis on 'seph' and not enough on 'ni'). At least it didn't say 'phone'. x (edit: actually after replaying it it kind of does say 'phone', I take that back) (it gets it right if you put in 'Persephone a' instead xx)
February 28, 20214 yr The German voice on that is closest to how it is pronounced with the exception that the R in Áskorza is a tapped R, as in Scottish English, but otherwise it’s fairly good
February 28, 20214 yr The Greek woman (I'm assuming it was meant to be Greek) was the closest for mine: cad-a-lee-see-ya
February 28, 20214 yr The website does mine almost correctly if it wasn't for the mispronounced Ü. It's Vool-kee-ree-ah not Voll-kee-ree-ah.
February 28, 20214 yr for some time now i’ve been desperate to know how exactly ‘singerpurear’ is pronounced @popchartfreak
February 28, 20214 yr Mine says Air Roach. come on surviving the apocalypse!! Clearly it is air - och (like thr ch in chair) - ey??
February 28, 20214 yr for some time now i’ve been desperate to know how exactly ‘singerpurear’ is pronounced @popchartfreak It's a warping of Singapore into Singer-Pure-Ear, as in I'm all ears when it comes to listening to music :lol:
February 28, 20214 yr Mine says Air Roach. come on surviving the apocalypse!! ...and yet in my head it's the very very classy Air-rosh, as in roche moutonnees, French-sounding and ice-age features (ie cool) :lol:
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