@Tamasg Huh. At first I thought I'd found a speechbox bug. Then I learned that Espeak also cannot pronounce chitin. Only eloquence with the community dictionary says it correctly. Weird! I'd have thought that was a pretty common word. Guess it shows just how spoiled we are with eloquence. New speechbox sounds really, really close, though! It's not stressful to listen to anymore. Just a bit mushy for pleasure reading.
@fastfinge@Tamasg What does chitin mean? I Kagied it (speaking of things that don't sound quite right ) and am none the wiser as to why it would be considered a pretty common word.
@jscholes@Tamasg It's what insects are covered in, and what exoskeletons are made of. It's in literally any fantasy novel involving giant snails, or spiders, or lobsters, or...it's the second most common substance produced by living beings in nature, beaten only by cellulose. And chitin is pronounced "kyten" (like kite but with an n sound at the end).
@Tamasg@fastfinge@jscholes people generally think of in its common form as basically exoskeleton support/armor, but it’s also butterfly wings and sometimes the colors are due to physical structure effects of the chitin itself and not pigments!
@jscholes@fastfinge ah, that's a word I haven't heard since my biology classes. :D Think it's something cell related. But yeah, both just completely clobber it. The CMU dictionary in full would probably say it right, but then of course you also need to work on IPA alignment between how differently Espeak is producing it VS that dict, oof. Not fun. Yeah, to be honest I don't know how often non-scientific folks, unless they just happen to read insect-related articles a lot.
@jscholes@Tamasg Amusingly, eloquence says "CHITINIZATION" correctly, but not "chitinous". Even though chitinization is the process of becoming chitinous, and chitinous means covered in chitin.
