Aleratec: Microsoft Sam will say 'al-er-aw-teek' in the SAPI5 version.To make him say it correctly, separate the 'air' and 'master'. Airmaster: Microsoft Sam will say 'Airmister' in the SAPI5 version.To make him say it correctly, separate the 'air' and 'bus'. The SAPI5 version of Sam will say 'orbis'. Airbus: Sam says it as 'Airbess', but will say it correctly as two words.He says it correctly in the SAPI4 version. Aeroplane: Sam pronounces it as 'air-ah plane' in the SAPI5 version.He will pronounce 'active vision' correctly. In Anna, a brief 'wuh' is heard before Activision. Activision: Sam will say 'Act-tiv-vis-see-on' in the SAPI5 version, but not in SAPI4.8bit: If you type this in alot of times, Sam will say '8 billit'.He will say the name correctly if you type 'Six Nine'. 6ix9ine: Microsoft Sam says 'six-ix-nine-nin' in the SAPI5 version.This can be fixed by spacing the characters (as '2 N E 1'). 2NE1: Microsoft Sam, Mary and Mike pronounces it as '2-northeast-1'.2, too and two: in davemadson's old videos, Sam pronounced it like t'woo.To do this, type 'sse loi' (s'e loi in SAPI4). Sticky Keys XP has also found an accurate way to make him say it correctly in SAPI5. He also says it correctly if a word is placed after it that begins with L or W, such as 'soy like' or 'soy wheat'.

However, he can say it correctly if you type a z after the S. It doesn't happen in Mary and Mike, meaning this issue seems to be specific to the voice itself. In SAPI4 (Speakonia), one can aid this mispronunciation by typing 'soei' or 'Swoi' instead, and SAPI5: 'soe' or 'ssoy'. Most famously, regardless of version, Sam cannot pronounce the word 'soy' (also the spelling 'soi'), but instead will make a sound ' swurghf', resembling a helicopter blade. Note: Many of the mispronunciations are not in the SAPI4 (used for Speakonia) version originally in Windows 2000, although there are some SAPI4 - only bugs. Following is a list of glitches that have been found. There are several glitches with Microsoft Sam, Mike, Mary, Anna, David, Hazel, Zira, Mark and Eva, some of which that cause them to pronounce words incorrectly.

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