Re: reading phone numbers with latest JAWS 9 update
- From: "Adrian Spratt" <A.Spratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 15:32:32 -0400
Don,
I'm wondering if the problem results from what might be FS's interpretation
of the correct way to write phone numbers. Traditionally, the area code was
placed in parentheses, then there was a space, then three digits, a hyphen,
and then the last four digits. Today, people written phone numbers in a
variety of ways, such as by separating the three components by periods.
However, my sense is that an increasingly accepted method is to separate the
three components by hyphens.
See how your synthesizer and JAWS read the following two representations of
the phone number you listed. First, I'll write it with the old
parenthetical. The second version will use just hyphens.
(504) 892-4076
504-892-4076
Note. My synthesizer is Dectalk Express, so I might be getting a rendering
that's different from yours.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Moore" <donmoore@xxxxxxxxxxx>
HiNermin,
It used to sound like this:
five o four eight nine two four seven o six.
With the last two builds of JAWS 9, the same number sounds like this:
five hundred four eight hundred ninety-two four thousand seventy-six.
Regards,
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nermin" <voy44@xxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: reading phone numbers with latest JAWS 9 update
Hi Don,
could you give an example of what it used to sound like and how it is now?
Regards, Nermin
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