Re: Pronounce Galois

From: David Bernier (ezcos_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: 28 Oct 2004 05:29:04 -0700

Gerry Myerson <gerry@maths.mq.edi.ai.i2u4email> wrote in message news:<gerry-E170C3.09325028102004@sunb.ocs.mq.edu.au>...
> In article <W9Qfd.121680$WY.2177125@wagner.videotron.net>,
> David Bernier <david250@videotron.ca> wrote:
>
> > I just tried a speech synthesizer robot for:
> >
> > évariste galois était un grand génie. and
> > fourier était un grand génie.
> >
> > here:
> >
> > http://www.latl.unige.ch/english/latl_e.html
> >
> > choose: "Speech synthesis",
> > then paste text above and press "Traiter" button.
> >
> > IMHO, the rendering is pretty good.
> >
> > David Bernier
>
> Is that ber-neer, or bair-nyey?

Bernier rhymes with "dernier" (last), and
bair-nyey is closer than ber-neer to how
native French speakers pronounce it.

Of course, the French "r"-sound as in the French words
"France" or "Australie" is not the same as the
English "r"-sound ...

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