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From: Jim.Danley@f20.n233.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Danley)
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Subject: Re: ACCENT'S CUSTOM DICTIONARY
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Date: 21 May 91 04:10:18 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

> Oh, by the way, Accent always seems to say the word drive instead
> of doctor when inputting dr, if you have something for that please
> include it.

You could turn off the built in abbreviations.  At present, it seems
that those built in words get priority over any downloaded dictionary.
I tried telling the Accent to pronounce D R as DOCTOR and it worked,
but only if the built in abbreviations were turned off.  I plan to talk
with Mike Chang at Aicom Corporation tomorrow.  There is a new chip
available to upgrade the Accent and I believe that this "dictionary
priority" question is addressed in the new hardware.  I will report
here once I know more.

Also, a brief progress report on my program...  I did sit down this
weekend for several hours and got a good start on my program.  The
basics are done.  The fun, yet challenging code remains.  I will get
back to it this coming weekend.  Oops, no I won't.  This weekend is
Mother's Day!  I'll see what free time I can find in the next week or
two.  I definitely do not want to put this off too much longer.  If I
get out of the mood, it will become one of the several projects that
are on the "back burner".  My hard disk is FULL of such animals.
Anyway, I will keep you posted.  Thanks for your interest.

        Jim

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