On 12/11/13, Chip Orange <[email protected]> wrote: > If you'd like to be the first to try this . > > I've added a new app named Speech_Fix. > > > > It improves English speech by processing ordinal oddities such as 1 > followed > by s t into the word first, 2 followed by n d into second, etc. > > (this requires the Window-Eyes setting for "spell alpha-numeric" to be set > to "off", and "numbers" to "on", in order to work properly). > > > > It also attempts to handle abbreviations where the context determines what > should be spoken. Examples of these would include the abbreviation of s t, > which could be street or saint. The same is true of d r, which can be > doctor or > > drive, and even rd which could be part of an ordinal such as third, or the > abbreviation of road. > > And . it should be able to do this without any noticeable impact on the > speech responsiveness. > > > > It's not always perfect, and some programs don't seem to create output in > long lines of speech, so it does do poorly in those cases. Please write me > and tell me if you like it and keep using it, or find that something it > does > makes > > you stop using it. > > > > If you have suggestions for unusual written English oddities which this app > might be able to improve the speech for, please do write to me at the email > provided. > > > > Chip Orange > > [email protected] > > > > > > Thanks to Munawar Bijani for his DotFix app, which was the idea for this > app. I recommend you also try the DotFix app, as it allows words which are > contractions with apostrophes, to be spoken properly even when you have all > punctuation set to "on". > > > > > > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is > related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to > [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it.
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