Intrigued by this giving femininity to the geek concept, but several have already said, presumption of what is meant is more irritating than just saying it as it is. Pronounce actual words, that is what TTs is for, but acronyms are an obvious minefield since they differ so widely between contexts. We, the reader, knows our context, the TTS doesn't.
Ah yes, totally agree to the idea of turning off that expansion, I'd add it to spellcheck and word prediction as things I switch off from the word Go! BobH. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Chaltain" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 1:55 AM Subject: Re: Cooking with terabytes I assume this is a joke, but being a geek myself, I feel obligated to stand up for geeks everywhere. First, I don't think it's an easy task to come up with an algorithm that's going to know how to pronounce an abbreviation correctly in every context. I don't think it's a case of a geek with delusions of godhood, but rather a smart guy trying to do the best he or she can do to make as many people as happy as possible while taking up as few of your iPhone's resources as she can. Second, I think an option in the iPhone where you can turn off abbreviation expansion or providing a pronunciation dictionary would be a good feature allowing people to customize things a bit more to their liking. I know I've fought for the ability in screen readers to turn off abbreviation expansion so I can hear exactly what's on the screen with as little interpretation as possible. On 09/21/2015 01:49 PM, 'RobH.' via VIPhone wrote: > This is done by geeks that think they're gods, and so know it all. > > I guess this proves they're neither. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mary Otten" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 4:49 PM > Subject: Cooking with terabytes > > > Good old Alex has discovered a new cooking term. Did you know that when > you're making short ribs in the slow cooker, you need to > add > one and a half terabytes of balsamic vinegar? When, when, will the folks who > make the speech synthesizers stop trying to guess > what > abbreviations mean and leave it up to us, the human readers with the smarts, > to figure it out for ourselves? > Mary > > Sent from my iPhone > -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
