It occurs to me that the mistakes in emphasis that I hear in these samples are the same mistakes I hear from young readers who are concentrating on decoding the

It occurs to me that the mistakes in emphasis that I hear in these samples are the same mistakes I hear from young readers who are concentrating on decoding the words one at a time. The method that fluent text speakers use is to process the entire sentence while beginning to speak it. I wonder if a better model of word emphasis considering whole sentences could move an automated reader out of the uncanny valley.