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Fonix DECtalk: 5.01-E1 User Guide Electronic mail-reading example DECtalk supplies an email parser for Windows and UNIX, but not for MS-DOS. See Mode [:mode] for additional information. To write an electronic mail preprocessor, use the following text conversions before sending the text to DECtalk: 30 Parse the header boilerplate to remove extraneous information. Add the new paragraph symbol [+] to blank lines between paragraphs if DECtalk is speaking paragraphs of text. See Stress and Syntactic Symbols for a complete list of syntactic symbols. Create a user dictionary for words that have an application-specific pronunciation. Use one of the available options if DECtalk is connected to a database containing names. Add the Pronounce [:pronounce] in-line command before the database word to force language specific rules on the name. Example: [:pronounce name] . Replace the database word with its phoneme text. For this option, turn Phoneme Interpretation [:phoneme] on. Scan the text for strings of numbers in a format the application understands but DECtalk does not. To extract the time format from an electronic mail message, add code to an application to expand it to the "o'clock" form. In many applications, the listener may want to write down numbers (such as prices or telephone numbers). An application can scan for numbers and send them to DECtalk with pauses at critical locations. For example: The number is, 1 (800) 5 5 5, 1 2 3 4. [:rate 120] That is, [_] 1 (800), [_] 5 5 5, [_] 1 2 3 4. [:rate 180]. See Phonetic Symbols (multiple languages) for a complete list of phoneme symbols, including the silent underscore symbol. See Pitch and Duration of Tones to add duration and pitch to phoneme text. The spaces between the numbers ensure that "five five five" is spoken rather than "five hundred fifty five." Use [:mode spell on] to produce the same results. A slower speaking rate ([:rate 120]), and the silence phonemes of specified duration ([_], [_], [_]), were selected to allow enough time for the listener to write down the entire number. Silence phonemes were positioned after the commas ([_] 1 (800), [_]) to maintain appropriate intonation. If the application speaks sums of money (bank balances or item costs), write the text to say:
Using in-line commands Your balance is $244.05. That is, 2 4 4, [_] point 0 5, [_] dollars. When spelling an item, an application may need to distinguish letter case. Consider using the Pitch [:pitch] command or different voices to distinguish between uppercase and lowercase letters. [:nf]Maynard [:nf]M[:nb]a y n a r d [:nf]Maynard 31
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