There are some doozies in ibmtts that we're trying to disable, like "Deutsche Marks" for dem. Heck, Deutsche Marks don't even exist any longer. Janina Steve Holmes writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > My thoughts exactly! I would say 95% of the time, I do *NOT* need these > substitutions and I further agree with Greg, the developers never > provide a means to turn this off. How 'bout mn for Minisota, hp for > HorsePower when you're trying to talk about Helit Packard, Sunday Micro > Systems, what else can I think of? > > I think GW Micro managed to get most of that garbage turned off with > DEC-Access for Window-Eyes. However, I think DEC for Linux still does > it <sigh>. > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:46:36PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > 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: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > 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 > > > - -- > > > Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles > > > as if she laid an asteroid. > > > -- Mark Twain > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > > > > > > iD8DBQFEWlWAG9IpekrhBfIRAsIrAJ95Z/SjffxJnUyuldszDE4YawNGAACgm8a8 > > > vOonEsLU+jdXTuoD1ihxCbY= > > > =MkTk > > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > - -- > > 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 at EU.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFEWloc7s9z/XlyUyARAghhAJ9tOtKtwbk9SiNMAU9MXyoBny5wRACg3UKY > > Gz4weUUtP/aP2J+qlsnfQ3o= > > =QQe7 > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEWmK6WSjv55S0LfERAxJRAJwPEUx7Vsxp4qyy8EXNph/xlQ++lQCdGhzG > xewQoo/pM3LP3O1nImBwuq8= > =u18u > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.240.715.1272 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org
