From: Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: eSpeak abbreviation question
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 12:46:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060504194636.GA7583@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060504192656.GA20593@taylor.homelinux.net>
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My advise would be to get rid of doctor/drive or saint/street
altogether, and just say dr and st. One of the things I can't stand
about some synths is that they say abbreviations like that, and most
of them don't give you an option to turn that off.
Greg
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:26:56PM -0400, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
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> Has anyone figured out how to solve the doctor/drive abbreviation problem in
> eSpeak? I tried several things and nothing helped. I tried adding an entry for
> drive in english.list, but eSpeak still says doctor all the time. I put it
> after doctor and it said drive all the time. I tried explicitly putting the dot
> in the entry for doctor, but then it said drive all the time. And when I
> removed the entry for drive, it simply said d r even if there was a dot after
> it. Has anyone figured out the right way to do this? Did I maybe forget
> something that would have made a difference? I can use similar help in the
> matter of the saint/street problem as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Lorenzo
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
Lorenzo Taylor
` Gregory Nowak [this message]
` Steve Holmes
` Janina Sajka
` Lorenzo Taylor
Dawes, Stephen
` Michael Whapples
` Adam Myrow
` Laura Eaves
` Hart Larry
` Willem van der Walt
` Michael Whapples
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