eSpeak abbreviation question

[Gregory Nowak]

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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:
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> 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
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