Pronounces "æ" as "a"

[WCarter73]

That's all. Æ is pronounced a.

[ssb22]

When I wrote the table for Lexconvert (which is what this project used as its starting point), I didn't understand the difference between "æ" and "a", so I simply mapped both of them to eSpeak's "a", which is the vowel I use when I say the word "hat". It's possible that the American version of English (which is not what I speak) makes more of a distinction between these vowels. In that case I suspect you might want to use an American speech synthesiser too (the eSpeak voice is British; it does have an American-voice option but I don't know how well it does all the American phonemes).