fun with pronunciation.

[Steve Holmes]

I like the descriptions given by GW Micro's Vocal-Eyes.  They described
line and box cornercharacters pretty well.  I can get out there and see if
I can get their descriptions for an example.  Things like "upper left",
"upper right", ... for single stuff; "double upper left", "double upper
right", ...; "double center with single down", "double center" might be
double lines crossing each other in the middle of a diagram.  A general
guide might be to specify double only when a line is double and otherwise
"line" could be single by implicit default.

I hope this makes sense.

 On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> Hi Folks:  We have been working on the extended ascii character set
> for speakup over the past couple of days and I thought I should get
> some input from the speakup community.  Mostly the European community
> will be able to help best.
> 
> In the extended ascii set there are a lot of accented characters which
> it would be nice to get the pronunciation as close as an American
> synth can get.  These accents include circumflex, umlaut, cidilla and
> acute.  My German tells me umlaut should be pronounced as oomlout.  I
> believe the French pronunciation for acute is aggeu, well, that's as
> close as I can get this DoubleTalk to say it.  I'm thinking cidilla
> should be something like sedeya and circumflex I'm lost on.  If you
> have any suggestions on their pronunciation I'd like to hear them.
> You can either send them to the list with phonetic spellings as I have
> or you could get on the reflector and tell me in person.  In any case
> your help would be appreciated.
> 
> We are also trying to come up with a clear but short, relatively
> anyway, description of the graphic characters.  Some like "double top
> centred" mean a double horizontal line with a single centred joint
> pointing down.  Zippy, are we having fun yet?
> 
>   Kirk
> 
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