Re: Modifying the dictionary
- From: "Jack Lowe" <akronjack1982@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:37:02 -0500
And here's the topper of them all! I'm talking about the word, L, I, V, E.
We are at the mercy of jaws as to which of the pronunciations it will throw
at us. And it never fails that it will pick the wrong one every single
time! LOL. Jack
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: Modifying the dictionary
> To be serious for a moment, I guess either the synth or your screen reader
> ought to employ a heuristic for parsing such things and making an educated
> contextual guess that the grammar, good or bad, doesn't suggest that this
> could possibly mean inches. Just thinking.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Toews" <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:21 PM
> Subject: Re: Modifying the dictionary
>
>
>> It's worse if you have DecTalk combined with people with bad grammar. Any
>> sentence ending in "in", DecTalk wants to say inch.
>>
>> Bruce
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>> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Jack Lowe wrote:
>>
>>> LOL! Daniel, you can run into the same headache with using St period.
>>> You
>>> have to choose between Street, or saint. It's just that Street Peter
>>> just
>>> doesn't sound right. Ya ya know? LOL. Jack
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 5:04 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Modifying the dictionary
>>>
>>>
>>>> I agree, Judith. I've learned the same lesson experimenting with less
>>>> exotic examples, such as modifying the dictionary to have Jaws say
>>>> "drive"
>>>> when it sees the "Dr." abbreviation in an address. Of course,it's only
>>>> I
>>>> who knows when the context is a street address, with the result that
>>>> the
>>>> dictionary began also referring to everyone with a doctoral degree in
>>>> any
>>>> field as "Drive." So, for a brief, silly period, everyone from my
>>>> primary
>>>> care physician to academics and scientists quoted in New York Times
>>>> articles
>>>> acquired the Christian name Drive. that was a bit weird. As the only
>>>> alternative would be to allow the famous street lined with extravagant
>>>> boutiques in downtown Beverly Hills to be renamed Rodeo Doctor-- though
>>>> I
>>>> suppose, among bull riders and bronc busters there really exist such a
>>>> professional-- I gave it up.
>>>>
>>>> So now I tolerate good old dee are period and learn to like it. It's
>>>> not
>>>> all that painful.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Judith Bron" <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:49 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: Modifying the dictionary
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Of course you are right. I was just pointing out that with that
>>>>> adaptation
>>>>> to the dictionary the sentence, "I was eating a sandwich of peatut
>>>>> butter
>>>>> and jam." would sound very strange. I do a lot of writing with
>>>>> foreign
>>>>> words and names but adapting the dictionary to everything I need jaws
>>>>> to
>>>>> say
>>>>> when coming acrosss certain letters or letter combinations would be
>>>>> intollerable. Judith
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "KStarrett" <kstarrett5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:37 PM
>>>>> Subject: RE: Modifying the dictionary
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Judith,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You said,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When writing m.123 it already says m.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Which is true. But if you redefine M. to say monsieur, then you type
>>>>>> M.123
>>>>>> jaws will say monsieur 123.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> See the problem?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And modifying your example, what would happen in a sentence such as:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At the M.L.A. convention M. de Gaul ate a sandwich of peanutbutter
>>>>>> and
>>>>> jam.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kimberly Judith
>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>> From: <kstarrett5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:46 PM
>>>>>>> Subject: Modifying the dictionary
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>>>>> I am trying to modify the jaws default dictionary to do the
>>>>>>>> following:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> When jaws encounters the letter M followed by a period then a
>>>>>>> space I want
>>>>>>> it to say "monsieur" as in monsieur de Gaul.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> When jaws encounters the letter M followed by a period and
>>>>>>> another letter
>>>>>>> (like M.L.A.) I want it to say M.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is this possible?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Kimberly Starrett
>>>>>>>> "Sharing an office is like being in a Beckett play...after
>>>>>>> everything has
>>>>>>> been said you still must go on talking."
>>>>>>>> Edmund White, in "The Farewell Symphony".
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