Hi Sarah V.; can you tell me how to add dr. to the dictionary for a BT. I have never had to do this before. What chapter talks about the dictionary. Thanks. Terry Powers
-----Original Message----- From: Sarah Van Oosterwijck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 6:05 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: Re: [Braillenote] The way words are written Dr. and St. are not braille contractions they are abreviations that everyone uses. The problem isn't braille at all, but the fact that an abreviation can stand for more than one thing, so a synthesizer doesn't know which to use. The Braille Note is actually quite smart because it differentiates between an st sign written with a period after it and an ST sign by itself, so it understands ST sign as still when no period is present, but the abreviation S T when it is followed by a period. I undid most of the keynote abreviation speaking by putting them in the pronunciation dictionary. I just wrote S T with a space between them instead of ST together. Of course having keynote say S T isn't that elogant of a solution, but at least I won't have to hear Street Paul instead of Saint Paul, and there is no longer a star trek character called drive McCoy. <grin> I just prefer to do the interpriting for myself. I just remembered to add tacco to the pronunciation dictionary, because I don't approve of Taco Bell. I guess the creators of keynote didn't eat taccos regularly. :-) Sarah Van Oosterwijck Assistive Technology Trainer http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
