From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org ([63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FYpLj-0004eL-00 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:06:56 -0400 Received: (qmail 18444 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Apr 2006 12:06:21 -0700 Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:06:21 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Some number problems in eSpeak Message-ID: <20060426190620.GA17611@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060425181654.GA27053@taylor.homelinux.net> <004001c66937$0dd023a0$230110ac@jimPersonal1> <20060426144125.GB2961@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060426144125.GB2961@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8rc1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:06:57 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If I may add one more opinion to the mix, I personally like Steve's preference myself, pronounce the numbers as whole words, the way the doubletalk and the bns do. So, for example, 1234567 would be spoken as one-million two-hundred-thirty-four-thousand five-hundred-sixty-seven, without the dashes of course, which I only put in for clarity. Greg On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 07:41:26AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > I actually like the numbers to be spoken as whole words even when the > commas are missing. That's where the Accent synth drives me nuts when I > display free space or do a 'du' on my box and those numbers are not > punctuated. I find it harder to quickly parse a 6 or 7 digit number as > a string of digits when I'm interested in knowing how much space is > being used on my machine. > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFET8Ss7s9z/XlyUyARAsr1AJ9QjAyt2GVfwc6DKxlAhKGJiBy6SwCg20F7 p53TwoTlxZIC2/9D8FRAhXg= =rgkC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----