eSpeak abbreviation question

[Laura Eaves]

Hi all -- I have been a lurker on this list for a long time, but thought I'd 
break my silence for a moment to make a suggestion.  In the case of jaws, I 
believe the acronyms are specially handled by putting the words in the 
dictionary.  I don't know about espeak and other synths you are talking 
about, but if there is a dictionary for them somewhere with the 
abbreviations in them perhaps you could just edit it to remove the 
abbreviations that bother you...  I know this sounds obvious, but I thought 
I'd suggest it.  If the synths have translations of abbreviations like DR 
hardcoded in the software, you can do the next best thing of entering the 
words in your dictionary -- say, translate "DR" to " D R".
HTH.
I am away from home and don't have access to linux at the moment so can't 
poke around and test my assertions.  But I know this problem is annoying as 
I run into the same thing on my cell phone -- Dr on my cell phone is 
translated to "Drive".  I would prefer a simple ""D r" being spoken.
Good luck.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow at midsouth.rr.com>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" 
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 6:28 PM
Subject: RE: eSpeak abbreviation question


Well, I have the Dectalk USB, and it does this sort of thing.  It's pretty
annoying when it gets abbreviations wrong.  I remember that JAWS for DOS
could turn off the Dectalk abbreviations, but JFW can't.  The Accent PC also
has abbreviations, but apparently Speakup knows how to turn them off.
Probably the best option is to have a command that can be sent to the
synthesizer to disable abbreviation processing.  I also agree that such
processing should be case sensitive.



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