Re: Number and Abbrieviation Processing
Martin McCormick
I am not an expert on regular expressions, but I sure
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love to use them because they solve many decision problems regarding text and how it is processed. For every problem solved using a RE, hoever, there is a potential side effect created that is just waiting to kick you in the knee. Output text is best described as a stream of consciousness. We humans have the most sophisticated computing system on Earth sitting right atop our necks and our speech output is usually controlled by the context of what we are doing and talking about at the moment. It's also influenced by our age, education and where we came from. A speech program for a computer doesn't even come close to having any concept of that type of context and it gets to be a knotty problem even for humans placed in an unfamiliar situation in which street slang and vernacular are different on different blocks of the same street. We instantly know whether we should say the long E sound when seeing R E A D or whether we should say a word that sounds just like the color red if we just read a book. A speech synthesizer that can get that little issue right every time doesn't exist and that extraordinary computer that sits on most of our spines can even be confused by unusual syntax so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for someone to come up with a software solution anytime soon, at least, not today. I will say to those working on these projects, Keep up the good work. Probably the best idea in the mean time could be some form of easily accessible switch that can be changed on the fly to enable and disable the triggers that are causing misbehavior. In the world of software, one situation's annoying behavior is another's pure genius. Martin McCormick "Quentin Christensen" <quentin@nvaccess.org> writes:
It can be done with NVDA's speech dictionary. You'd need to use a
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