Re: [orca-list] howto use the pronunciation dictionary?]

[Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM>]

Take 3. Action!

Will and I just discussed this some more. It looks like we are
going to need to make the checks for entries in the pronunciation
diction case insensitive. For example, the "strikethrough" entry
(which gets replaced with "strike through") might occur at the
beginning of a sentence, in which case the first letter in capitalized.
For that case, it's not going to currently match against the "strikethrough"
entry in the pronunciation dictionary.

I've filed Orca enhancement request #464754 on this.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464754



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Subject:	Re: [orca-list] howto use the pronunciation dictionary?
Date:	Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:15:31 -0700
From:	Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM>
To:	Halim Sahin <halim sahin t-online de>
CC:	orca-list gnome org
References:	<20070808122131 GA23022 halim local> <46B9E4E8 5080901 sun com>

Will kindly pointed out that what you are asking isn't quite
what I answered. So let me try again.

You write:
"I tried to write GHz in the texteditor but orca reads 
it GHZ and not Giga Herz."

I just did the following test.

My Orca pronunciation dictionary has the line:

"GHz"   "giga hertz"

In gedit, I had:

Line 1. Testing GHz
Line 2. Testing GHZ.

For line 1, Orca spoke "giga hertz" instead of "GHz"
For line 2, Orca spoke G H Z.

Rich Burridge wrote:

Halim Sahin wrote:
  

how does the dictionary work?
I can't notice any effect if I insert some strings.
GHz has the replacement string Giga Hertz.
I tried to write GHz in the texteditor but orca reads it GHZ and not 
Giga Herz.
Do I need no setup something in orca to get this work?
  
    

On the "Pronunciation" pane in the Orca Preferences,
there is a list with rows that contain two columns. The
first column contains the actual string (i.e. the string
you would find in a text document and which don't
get spoken well), and the second column contains the
replacement string (i.e. the new still that will get
spoken when the first string is encountered).

Hopefully an example will help.

If you add "ROTFL" to a new list row in the first
column, then "rolling on the floor laughing" in
the second column, and save away your preferences,
then when Orca detects a line in a text document
such as:

"The queen was ROTFL when she chopped off his head"

it should hopefully replace "ROTFL" appropriately.

Like most other Orca preferences, you can set
pronunciations specific to an individual application as
well.

Hope that helps.

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