Some number problems in eSpeak

[Willem van der Walt]

Considder using the rules rather than coding it.
What about the differing rules for the different languages?


On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Jonathan Duddington wrote:

> In article <20060425181654.GA27053 at taylor.homelinux.net>,
>   Lorenzo Taylor <lorenzo at taylor.homelinux.net> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to change the way these numbers are spoken, or is this
>> a bug?
>
> The number pronunciation is all done by rules, see the ".group 9"
> section towards the end of the  data/english_rules  file.  So you can
> experiment if you wish.
>
> I should be able to fix item "1.05" easily, but making the rest
> completely correct would make the rules much more complicated.  It may
> be better to write a number pronunciation routine in the main program,
> rather than trying to do it all by rules (although that would make it
> fixed).
>
> Do you have any suggestions for how to say numbers, for example, should
> a six or seven digit number without commas be spoken like "one million
> two hundred and thirty four thousand five hundred and sixty seven"
> (which is rather cumbersome), or as individual digits, or like a
> telephone number with the digits spoken in pairs?
>
>
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