TrickiL Wrote:
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> I love Brion's Grill right by GMU. Does Wiki
> rhyme with trickie?
i was intrigued by this question as i hadn't thought about it as i had been told it was "WEE-kee." however, upon further examination, american english dictates it to be "WICK-ee" which yes, rhymes with trickie. the origin or the word is from Hawaiian "english" which is "WEE-kee" but i gave it the acid test: the
AT&T Natural Voices demo.
now im sure people are all "that's bullshit, speech programs suck." WRONG! AT&T has developed a speech synthesis program that is very good. try putting something like "I flipped my car on I-95." and it was say it correctly and it sounds like a person instead of a machine. i got really bored and tested them all as there a accents for different parts of the countries, here are the results:
American English (Crystal/Mike/Rich/Lauren): WICK-ee
American English (Claire): WECK-ee <-- wtf?! southern?
Latin American Spanish (Alberto): WEE-kee
Latin American Spanish (Rosa): wee-KEE
German (Klara): WEE-kee
German (Reiner): WEE-kay <<-- huh?
French (Alain/Juliette): WEE-kee
Canadian French (Arnaud): WEE-kee... eh? :P
UK English (Audrey): wah-I-KEE <-- WTF?!
UK English (Charles): WAHY-kee <-- fucking brits
Indian English (): WAHY-kee <-- fucking brits taught them!
(note: "WAHY" sounds the same as "why")
i think it's clear, that the british cant speak worth shit... and ruined the Indians.
while most of the world says WEE-kee, fuck 'em... it's WICK-ee.
"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."