[bookport] Re: Braille translation errors
- From: "Joni Colver" <july77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Book Port" <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 09:51:24 -0600
Hi Richard,
I have not noted these same errors but have noted other things which I
assume are due to Braille translation issues.
The word feminine is consistently pronounced as feme and even spelled that
way when reading brf files from bookshare or Web Braille. I assume the in
contractions are being interpreted as an asterisk and ignored in the
pronunciation and spelling because of my setting for punctuation.
I have occasionally noticed stand alone contractions like b for but and c
for can as being read as just the letter.
Have you changed the punctuation from its default? Mine is set on the
default setting of some with numbers. Maybe a different punctuation setting
would eliminate at least the double f error.
I have also noted in Web Braille that in a word like cafe with an accented e
it is pronounced as cafate. Actually Eloquence does not pronounce this as I
am hearing it with Double Talk which is caf uh tee. The accent is
interpreted as the at sign I assume.
Joni
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Turner" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 9:35 AM
Subject: [bookport] braille translation errors
Greetings,
I just read the book, The Atonement by Ian McEwan that I down loaded as a
brf file from the NLS's web braille service. There were two consistent
translation errors and I wondered if anyone else has found such errors in
other brf files.
1. The low f in words like different or suffered was translated as a
number 6, resulting in the words di6erent and su6ered.
2. The braille for herself was left as herf.
Also, speaking of braille, thanks to those who recently discussed the
braille input feature. I had not read the entire manual and was quite
pleased to discover this feature.
Happy reading,
Richard
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