eSpeak abbreviation question

[Steve Holmes]

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My thoughts exactly!  I would say 95% of the time, I do *NOT* need these
substitutions and I further agree with Greg, the developers never
provide a means to turn this off.  How 'bout mn for Minisota, hp for
HorsePower when you're trying to talk about Helit Packard, Sunday Micro
Systems, what else can I think of?

I think GW Micro managed to get most of that garbage turned off with
DEC-Access for Window-Eyes.  However, I think DEC for Linux still does
it <sigh>.

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:46:36PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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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
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> 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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