[bookport] Re: expand abbreviations
- From: "Otto Zamora" <8zamora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:39:46 -0500
Hi,
Agreed, even with the digitized speech, you will always have this problem.
Otto
-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Bruce Toews
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 5:23 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: expand abbreviations
The English language is so complex that only the human brain can discern
this sort of thing with near 100% accuracy.
Bruce
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On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, David Tanner wrote:
> I don't think you can even find a speech software like Jaws that always
get those words like Dr. St., etc. correct.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 1:13 PM
> Subject: [bookport] Re: expand abbreviations
>
>
> : So that our state NFB Secretary would live on Knowles Doctor?
> :
> : Put another way, what abbreviations one finds useful and what a
> nuisance
> : are about as individual as the number of individuals using the Book
> : Port. Yes, one could put in a pronunciation dictionary. But, I
> believe,
> : this would be extraneous to the Book Port's primary mission --
> : *reading!* I submit that you know when "Drive" should be "Doctor";
> the
> : Book Port has no way of knowing without doing more text analysis
> than is
> : warranted for a device such as this. I submit that the D+E+F bug is
> : *far* more critical than bells and whistles!
> :
> : Mike
> :
> : On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Josh Kennedy wrote:
> :
> : > Hi,
> : >
> : > It would be nice if the bookport would have an expand abreviations
> option so
> : > it would say Dr. instead of drive.
> : >
> : > Josh
> : >
> : > he should try out the animal before he bought him. He took the
> could. The
> : > Bear soon left him, for it is said he will not touch-land... A
> RIVER carried
> : > down in its stream two Pots, one made of pounce upon in a whole
> year. Evil
> : > wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.
> : >
> : >
> :
>
>
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