RE: Modifying the dictionary
- From: "Cy" <cselfridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:29:53 -0600
Same with Dr. for "drive or vice versa.
You can either live on South Cherry Doctor or visit Drive Smith for your
cold...
Cy, the Ancident Okie... "
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 4:22 PM
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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
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> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> 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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