eSpeak abbreviation question

[Janina Sajka]

There are some doozies in ibmtts that we're trying to disable, like
"Deutsche Marks" for dem. Heck, Deutsche Marks don't even exist any
longer.

Janina

Steve Holmes writes:
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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>.
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> 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
> > 
> > 
> > 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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