Richard,
While you couldn't fix all instances of abbreviations such as ST. and Dr.
with a more versatile exceptions dictionary, you could certainly fix some of
them. For example, If your synthesizer spoke St. as saint and Dr. as doctor
most of the time, in cases where parts of an address is separated by commas
rather than appearing on separate lines, you could be sure that the
synthesizer would say street and drive by entering ST period comma and DR
period comma in the original field of the exception dictionary and street
and drive in the replacement field. The other instances could be fixed as
well if you could somehow indicate that they occurred at the end of a line.
The exceptions dictionary could also have check boxes for case sensitivity
and for whether the original is a whole word or a string. The exceptions
dictionary on my cell phone using the Talks screen reader has these
features. The JAWS exceptions dictionary doesn't care what you place in the
original field, and the replacement can be a sound rather than a word or
phrase if you like.
Gary King
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard G Applegate" <[email protected]>
To: "'mop'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 10:40 AM
Subject: RE: a dictionary question
And if you were to be able to place this "word" in the exceptions
dictionary you would either hear "drive" every time, or "doctor" every
time.
I believe this particular issue is a function of the synthesizer as I can
create situations where WE will pronounce D r (period) as either "drive"
or
"doctor" without use of the exceptions dictionary. What is inadequate in
this situation is the English language: It's nearly impossible to program
Window-Eyes to say the right thing in the right situation all of the time.
I use other screen readers that also fail quite regularly in this regard.
-----Original Message-----
From: mop [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 10:58 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: a dictionary question
You can't change it because this is one of the problems wiht the
inadequate
exceptions dictionary. You can't put a period in the original field of
the
exception dictionary. You can't put anything in that field except for
letters numbers and apostrophe. You could put the space inthe original
field up to version 4.11 but this was taken out by some person on the
gwmicro staff. Who did it we don't know and no one knows except that
person
apparently. It is bad enough that the feature isn't there. It is absurd
that it was taken out. So join the club of those who think the exceptions
dictionary is totally inadequate.
On 2/11/2012 12:48 AM, mcleod stinnett wrote:
how do i get Dr. to be pronounced as doctor instead of drive. also is
there a way to make it say drive when it's after a street name?
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