tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 18 14:09:34 1999

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Re: Pronunciation and ST:Klingon LangLab




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'



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