You can't turn off the voice's own internal dictionary.  (You can only 
modify it, as you have done, by over-riding its speech within the .jdf.)  I 
suspect that FS will have to do the same, if there's enough knowledge or 
demand for such changes, so as to cater for different voices.  there are 
examples [of pronunciation] already within the JDF, which were probably 
constructed for eloquence, but which my Apolllo 2 turns around.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donald Marang" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 1:18 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] JAWS and Office


Are you using the standard Eloquence voice or one of the new Real Speak Solo
Direct voices?  I now use the Australian Karen voice and have found similar,
unwanted "replacements".  It happens even if I turn off the JAWS Dictionary
Manager.  The escalation Tech Support guy thinks it might be a dictionary
embedded within the voice.  He currently did not know how to turn it off,
but he is looking into the issue.  It makes the following replacements:
Dr. (with a period) = drive
whereas Dr (no period) = Doctor
WA (as in Seattle, WA) = Western Australia
Rx = recipe
sec (as in KB/sec) = secretary
Roman numerals such as "D" or "C" = their value (not sure how it decides
when since it is only occasional)
mm = millimeters
$ 14M (million) = dollar 14 meters
and so on...

I have overridden some of these using the JAWS Dictionary Manager.  But it
would be much better if the voice's internal dictionary (if that is what it
is?) could be turned off.  Does anyone know how to do this?

Don Marang


----- Original Message ----- 
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To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 4:26 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] JAWS and Office


> We've found a strange occurrence in JAWS with Office.  If you type a
> number greater than 31 followed by CAN, must be all caps, JAWS
> pronounces it as Canadian Dollars.  So the typed phrase, 32 CAN GO TO
> THE DANCE, comes out as "32 Canadian Dollars go to the dance."   Anybody
> know how to shut that off?
>
>
>
> Mark Zalewski
> PC Team
> 661-8009
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