[PLUG-TALK] [PLUG] Current state of Linux voice recognition

[Denis Heidtmann]

I recall from my youth that the New Yorker had a cartoon showing a highway
with two signs.  The first said "Entering Brooklyn"  The second had an
arrow, and the text "coive".

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 7:48 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> <Moving to PLUG-Talk>
>
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:46:57 -0700
> Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> dijo:
>
> >On 06/28/2017 04:39 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> >> On Wed, 28 Jun 2017, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> >>
> >>> Human languages all have a unique phonetic inventory, that is, all
> >>> the individual sounds of the language. English has 41 - 43 phonemes
> >>> (depending on your dialect), ...
> >>     Does this include Brooklyn and New Joisey?
> >
> >Or suthern Ohia?
>
> Yes! Southern Ohio has 41. The difference in the pronunciation of
> 'Ohio' is merely a matter of stress on the final syllable. English
> syllables have primary stress, secondary stress, or no stress. When a
> syllable has no stress the vowel automatically becomes a schwa. (A
> student in an Intro class once exclaimed "I want to be a schwa!") So in
> southern Ohio (I lived there myself for several years) they have just
> changed the stress pattern of the word. There is no change in the
> number of phonemes; like most Americans they have 41.
>
> But your mention of southern Ohio reminds me of a story told by a
> professor while discussing isogloss lines. An isogloss is a line drawn
> on a map delineating a dialect change. E.g., one of the most famous
> isogloss lines is the pail-bucket line running east to west through
> Pennsylvania. North of the line they say bucket and south of the line
> they say pail.
>
> The professor proceeded to describe the 'hun line,' running along the
> southern boundary of West Virginia, continuing along the Ohio river,
> and finally petering out on the west side of the Mississippi. The
> professor explained that north of the line waitresses in diners
> addressed their customers as 'sir' or 'ma'am,' where south of the line
> customers were uniformly addressed as 'hun.'
>
> Not all linguists officially recognize the hun line. :)
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