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Originally Posted by jorgegonzalito
Some of the most used commands and knew from watching movies to American submarines in the Pacific, even before knowing Silent Hunter. My pronunciation of those orders in English is quite acceptable, so I think I will not have trouble making a test to see how it goes.
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Apologies for the double post, but I just noticed the lines quoted above and realized that I wasn't quite clear. I was and am not questioning your English pronunciation. You wouldn't be the first native Spanish-speaker I've known who spoke perfect unaccented English.
The problem is in the speech rec software. My Windows Speech Recognition package recognizes North American English phonemes. So when I use it to interpret my English, it has no problems. But when I use it for German, it's not as good. An example: I want to fire a torpedo using the command: "Torpedo los!" "Torpedo" is OK. But "los" in English would be pronounced "loss" and that is what the speech rec would be looking for. And I can't use "lose" or "loose' either. So I decide to say instead: "Torpedo feuer!" Oops! "Feuer" in English would sound like "fewer". So I have to write "Torpedo foyer" or even "foyah" to tell the speech rec what
sound to look for.
If you have a version of Windows distributed in South America, I suspect its speech rec is loaded with American Spanish phonemes, which are definitely different from English ones. (Think "ella".) I don't know for sure, but speaking perfect English and using an English language set of voice commands might give some odd responses.