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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Tell me about it. A friend of mine runs sapi4
eloquence and stuff like HP gets converted where it shouldn't, like HP is a
company name but it gets expanded to horsepower. Or SD as in SD card is
converted into South Dakota. That happens all over the place.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=dectalk@bluegrasspals.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 20, 2011 5:56 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [DECtalk] request for sample
paragraphs for testing SAPI DECtalk</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi,<BR> <BR>That's a good point. We don't
want it abbreviating everything it can, or we'll end up saying weird stuff
when we shouldn't. For example, my iPod says 12 millibars instead of 12 MB or
12 Megabytes, and it just gets confusing.<BR><BR>Alex<BR><BR>On 6/20/2011
11:45 AM, ebruckert Bruckert wrote:
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http-equiv=Context-Type>Most of these things have been tested extensively in
the past and haven't really changed so I think some of the testing would be
redundant. However the real issue is new things that are prevalent now they
worked back then such as LOL and should it say LOL or laugh out
loud.<BR>Certain things can't be done such as many of the state
abbreviations as they are also words. Also to disambiguate many things some
of the parsing is case sensitive meaning if there's no capitalizations it
will figure it out. But the old rules have been tested extensively and
haven't really changed so I would be flabbergasted to see if any of the old
stuff is broken, so think about all the new things since they 2000 as
the rules haven't been updated since approximately that time.<BR><BR>
<DIV>On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Alex H. <SPAN><<A
href="mailto:linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">linuxx64.bashsh@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hi Corine,<BR><BR>Here's a paragraph using some common
phrases:<BR><BR>Dectalk is now running.<BR>The quick brown fox jumped over
the lazy dog. Four hours of hard work<BR>faced us. The cat ran away from
the dog at full speed.<BR><BR>Abbreviations and websites, email addresses,
etc:<BR>Mr. Hennings walked over to Dr. Jeckle and they both caught up
with Mrs.<BR>Who some time after that.<BR>The NCAA is cool. NBA, NHL and
MLB scores can now be looked up using<BR>Research tools on the web and a
website such as <A href="http://www.google.com/"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.google.com/</A><BR>head over to <A
href="http://www.yahoo.com/" moz-do-not-send="true">www.yahoo.com</A> to
see some news stories of interest.<BR>Contact <A
href="mailto:sample-address@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">sample-address@gmail.com</A> for more
info.<BR><BR>Monitary
values:<BR>$10<BR>$10.00<BR>$10.99<BR>$1,234.00<BR>$1,234<BR>$1,234,567.99<BR><BR><BR><BR>Hope
this helps.<BR>Alex<BR>
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<DIV><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>On 6/20/2011
8:00 AM, Corine Bickley wrote:<BR>> Jayson and friends,<BR>> Dennis
used a series of paragraphs to test the various letter-to-sound<BR>>
features of DECtalk many years ago (addresses, phone numbers, all
the<BR>> voices). These days, there are other series of characters,
like<BR>> websites, that users might need to be . Does anyone have a
favorite<BR>> paragraph that I should use as we finish up our testing
of SAPI<BR>> DECtalk?<BR>><BR>> The voices all sound fine on my
computer with simple sentences. I now<BR>> want to test all sorts of
other material before announcing a release<BR>> date, but I'm sure I
don't know what other users will want to hear.<BR>> Please send me
suggestions.<BR>> corine<BR>>
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