tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 18 14:09:34 1999
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Re: Pronunciation and ST:Klingon LangLab
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Pronunciation and ST:Klingon LangLab
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 17:03:55 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:04:57 -0500 Sean Robertson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> > It may be your microphone or such. I tried it with the
> > microphone built into my laptop and my pronunciation is good
> > enough that I was invited to be one of the people used as
> > samples for the speech recognition software (though I was not
> > able to attend). It went something like:
>
> I have yet to see a laptop with anything really passable as a microphone.
> For speach recognition, you probably need a good studio quality mic to make
> up for the current poor recognition technology.
>
> > KCD: No. Not {qo}. {qoH}.
> >
> > ch: qoHna' SoH jay'! toDSaH! yIHeghrup!
>
> What does that last line mean (don't know any Klingon yet, but it sure
> sounds ticked off)?
It means, "I'm sorry. I thought I pronounced it correctly, but
apparently, I was mistaken."
charghwI'