If you turn numbers off in "settings / Screen / Other / Numbers" it speaks two 
zero one two.  If you turn numbers on is speaks it as twenty twelve, and if you 
set it to 
synthesizer is speaks it as two thousand twelve
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Katherine Moss 
  To: Chip McCain 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:09 PM
  Subject: RE: To all Natively English speaking users - I need some feedback:


  If so, how?  

   

  From: Chip McCain [mailto:[email protected]] 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:14 PM
  To: Katherine Moss
  Subject: Re: To all Natively English speaking users - I need some feedback:

   

  We does do it.

    ----- Original Message ----- 

    From: Katherine Moss 

    To: [email protected] ; WE English mailing list 

    Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:59 AM

    Subject: RE: To all Natively English speaking users - I need some feedback:

     

    That's so interesting; JAWS knows how to say 1981, for instance, perfectly 
well, and it'd be nice for Window-Eyes to have the same privilege.  You don't 
know how that drives me insane.  But in English, you are right, we would 
normally say 1981, 1816, and so on; for the 2000's though, one could either say 
2012, for instance, or 2000 and 12.  

     

    From: David [mailto:[email protected]] 
    Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:51 AM
    To: WE English mailing list
    Cc: [email protected]
    Subject: To all Natively English speaking users - I need some feedback:

     

    In my local Non-English language, we often use to divide the four digit 
year number, into two groups of two-digits. That is, the year 1995, would be 
pronounced as 19 95.

     

    As I am working on the Extended Dictionary app, that has been anounced on 
the list earlier, I wanted to know, what is the official way of pronouncing 
year numbers in English. Or, at least, what is the general wish of the 
community. As you all will have noticed, Eloquence by standard wants to read 
out the year as a full four-digit number. At least to me, I find that rather 
wearisome, as the number 1981 would produce more verbage, than would 19 81. 

     

    The app is doing quite a bit of Date handling, and there is a chance here 
to modify the way of reading year numbers. And, just to calm you all down, the 
stuff can easily be modified by the end-user. Yet, I want to know, if it would 
be the wish of the community, to have some kind of modified pronounciation of 
the years, shipping with the app.

     

    All feedback will be appreciated. Thanks alot,

     

    David

    (The Author of the Extended Dictionary app)

     

    PS: The Extended Dictionary appp is currently in its Beta-testing process. 
Hopefully, it will be made available to the community later this summer. Still, 
this question goes to the whole community, since it has been considered of 
vital importance. All the modification the app will be performing to any speech 
output, can be fully controled by the user. Even if the app ships with a set of 
modifications, the user is free to do what he wants with the shipped entries.

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