Re: Jaws dictionary
- From: Bruce Toews <coke_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:03:17 -0600 (CST)
Realistically, you want JAWS to do as little interpretation for you as
possible. For one thing, dictionary entries take up space, and there are
so many "just a few exceptions" that people want to see in JAWS that to
accompdate them all would be monumental, CPU-intensive, and leave little
room for customization. Also, different synthesizers come preprogrammed
with different predefined pronunciations. Third, this leaves room for
error: I'm tired of my speech synth saying "drive" for "doctor", so I wish
it would just say d r. In my personal opinion, the less customized the
punctuation, the better as it gives me the freedom to choose what I
consider to be important and not have pronunciations imposed on me. There
are already way too many entries, in my opinion, in the default
dictionary, many of which are hangovers from old versions of Eloquence.
Bruce
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On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Carl J. Rose wrote:
> Hi All...
>
> I read a lot of material that has roman numerals in it
> I want Jaws to say roman 8 instead of xii because that sounds so funky.
>
> However, if I a am on a different machine or when Jaws is updated
> without any merge options like has happened lately, I have to re-program
> the dictionary and that is a pain.
>
> I would like to see these and other changes incorporated into the
> standard default dictionary off the shelf from SF to stop this problem.
>
> I am sending a copy of this note to the suggestions at FS.
>
> My question for the list is: Have any other such suggestions ever been
> included or am I wasting my time with this type of suggestion? I would
> be glad to fix the dictionary and send it to them to save the work.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> cjr
>
> Carl J. Rose
> 440-365-2899
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> 440-365-7470 fax
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>
>
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