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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Better Speech.
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Date: 22 Jan 89 12:11:36 GMT
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In <506@hocpa.UUCP>, rusty@hocpa.UUCP (M.W.HADDOCK) writes:
>Is there a switch on SPEAK:  or say that will turn off the expansion of
>abbreviations?  For example, the sentence
>
>	I am the Wizard of Oz.
>
>comes out sounding like 
>
>	I am the wizard of ounces.
>
>I know you're saying that the need for Oz at the end of a sentence if
>miniscule but there is at least Dr. (for doctor when I wanted drive).  There
>are other abbrevitions but you catch my drift.  Right now, the only way I've
>come up with to defeat this is to put a space before a termination period.
>Ah, but this means I have to "edit" my incoming text.

Chip Orange has written a rather nifty little utility called BetterSpeech. It
intercepts the output of the 'say' command and accesses a translation file
that stores your translator exceptions in pairs. Typical entries might look
like:

ascii
asky
copied
copeed
ieee
i triple e
ibm
brain dead pile of silicon scrap

I know it's on Compuserve, either in AmigaTech or AmigaArts, but don't know
where else it might be available.

-larry

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