[DECtalk] request for sample paragraphs for testing SAPI DECtalk

[ebruckert Bruckert]

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.
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.

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Alex H. <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Corine,
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> Here's a paragraph using some common phrases:
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> Dectalk is now running.
> The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Four hours of hard work
> faced us. The cat ran away from the dog at full speed.
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> Abbreviations and websites, email addresses, etc:
> Mr. Hennings walked over to Dr. Jeckle and they both caught up with Mrs.
> Who some time after that.
> The NCAA is cool. NBA, NHL and MLB scores can now be looked up using
> Research tools on the web and a website such as http://www.google.com/
> head over to www.yahoo.com to see some news stories of interest.
> Contact sample-address at gmail.com for more info.
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> Monitary values:
> $10
> $10.00
> $10.99
> $1,234.00
> $1,234
> $1,234,567.99
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> Hope this helps.
> Alex
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> On 6/20/2011 8:00 AM, Corine Bickley wrote:
> > Jayson and friends,
> > Dennis used a series of paragraphs to test the various letter-to-sound
> > features of DECtalk many years ago (addresses, phone numbers, all the
> > voices). These days, there are other series of characters, like
> > websites, that users might need to be . Does anyone have a favorite
> > paragraph that I should use as we finish up our testing of SAPI
> > DECtalk?
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> > The voices all sound fine on my computer with simple sentences. I now
> > want to test all sorts of other material before announcing a release
> > date, but I'm sure I don't know what other users will want to hear.
> > Please send me suggestions.
> > corine
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