-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi there. Another example I can think of is Flite. It thinks that anything with "co" in it is Colorado, and it thinks that IA is Indiana. On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:45:58PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote: > What synthesizer are you using? I've noticed this with the Dectalk USB. > It foolishly assumes that a number followed by the month is a date. I've > always found it annoying when synthesizers try to interpret text as > abbreviations or acronyms when it isn't. A great example of this is the > Microsoft text-to-speech engine which tends to pronounce "sun" as > "Sunday" if it has a period after it. This would result in reading > "www.sun.com" as "www.Sunday.com." Fortunately, the Dectalk USB isn't > that stupid, but it does sometimes botch things up as in the example you > gave of the Pine message index. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- How many chunks could checkchunk check if checkchunck could check chunks? - -- Alan Cox -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBQtSaC6e2pgKIdGq4AQqj5w//VYKHulqH2YXZDlAC0RrgJZWZ4cp5jFT5 JueEHZKOy9LSuct90SQT1harjtz5KQw8VY3G/tRwAscZORp1YSoBURu3a5veUYn3 tfoSfjQMTB8ZHvwXqgeUCfQnvKrgkutW8Lv49te8pSbWPVZPwlfi0XOMs/qM2nD+ RyFplPvFyhuVLithzxqr3XSB9glS3TyvDoAWUWKy33msYKIGM20KR7nXEnm5P0y5 /HsS+5+zpXSJlQpxf7eFxh0SoFXwGOTzFUCHLG/v/K1qq8EhoW95JT4qj/5QtKp6 sF4Brrb48Hnd8L50yhb56fSGIThRB155UsQ9SWY6s1U/6FoV9CfyuU3YiAfZf4XL +1+GOPzSYtdTcTeOPc2ZEgu6LzFg4tm4q6dK+L8/I7DAXCpmZt5IRUXVcVCE6g2L 9n9JsxrJT6sGPkDI3rbtiUKgq9jdjgVaoCGVMK9OgFd7pgvQWbuDWHIOp0YKT4IZ avtDtuwqeDCYMh0iNsMo/Kwrd8hi6XmSIWq22MsVcdg4L+9necFU/6QmQPI9WBOG Btg6O4Dm0QtvCgJSrGUKpK4GTTMCNb+lKAUfQp9xVdH/VJIWl1AFDHiQM52vTtiH i/b3Vz6bzo/49PUmG826aAWMX1i96jGvp4V2FQ40b3+EmuYjawA2b4iUZ+j3HVfI y5n9SfDCba8= =E672 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
