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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" <speakup at 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. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
