From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1@carolina.rr.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: eSpeak abbreviation question
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 20:07:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0cdf01c66fd7$f3565150$8001a8c0@Charmin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000f01c66fca$22e8d900$6401a8c0@dell>
Hi all -- I have been a lurker on this list for a long time, but thought I'd
break my silence for a moment to make a suggestion. In the case of jaws, I
believe the acronyms are specially handled by putting the words in the
dictionary. I don't know about espeak and other synths you are talking
about, but if there is a dictionary for them somewhere with the
abbreviations in them perhaps you could just edit it to remove the
abbreviations that bother you... I know this sounds obvious, but I thought
I'd suggest it. If the synths have translations of abbreviations like DR
hardcoded in the software, you can do the next best thing of entering the
words in your dictionary -- say, translate "DR" to " D R".
HTH.
I am away from home and don't have access to linux at the moment so can't
poke around and test my assertions. But I know this problem is annoying as
I run into the same thing on my cell phone -- Dr on my cell phone is
translated to "Drive". I would prefer a simple ""D r" being spoken.
Good luck.
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow@midsouth.rr.com>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'"
<speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 6:28 PM
Subject: RE: eSpeak abbreviation question
Well, I have the Dectalk USB, and it does this sort of thing. It's pretty
annoying when it gets abbreviations wrong. I remember that JAWS for DOS
could turn off the Dectalk abbreviations, but JFW can't. The Accent PC also
has abbreviations, but apparently Speakup knows how to turn them off.
Probably the best option is to have a command that can be sent to the
synthesizer to disable abbreviation processing. I also agree that such
processing should be case sensitive.
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