Speakup Exchanging Numbers in Pine Index?

[Igor Gueths]

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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.
> 
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