Yes, i notice this as well. How about a sentence ending with in followed by
a period such as he was asked to come in.
Another thing i notice is that if you had a sentence such as in the
following example: the chamber asked for $26 million in compensation. You
will see that the sentence takes on a different meaning because the million
is not read out.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Braillenote List'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 6:00 AM
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] pronounciation dictionary?
Hi Tessa;
That should not be happening. Our states are represented with 2 letters
now
a days. Ill is a 3 letter word. There must be something wrong either
with
your dictionary or Pulsedata's as a whole. Is this happening to other
people too? I have not noticed this happen yet. If I get a chance, I
will
try it out.
Terry Powers
-----Original Message-----
From: Tessa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 4:41 PM
To: Braillenote List
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] pronounciation dictionary?
Terry, when miss or ill is by itself it's pronounced properly, when
followed
by a period it has been assumed that those words are being used as
abbreviations for state names but in most cases where the word occurs
followed by punctuation abbreviations are not what is being intended and
it's very distracting to be reading something and have the vn say
something
like "He wasn't in school because he was illinois." if there was no
punctuation after the word it would have just read the word as ill. The
same
with miss and mississippi.
Tessa
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