Nuance Vocalizer Developer's Guide - Avaya Support

Text encodingPhrasing and punctuationPeriodsNuance Vocalizer supports the Microsoft CP1252 (WinLatin1) and ISO-8859-1 Ifyou are using Vocalizer in SSML mode, Vocalizer can interpret ISO-8859-1 inputcharacters if you provide an appropriate XML header: Les lettres accentuées telles que: é,à,è,...sontfréquentes en français For more information, see “Encoding” on page 39.Vocalizer recognizes punctuation used to end phrases, sentences, andparagraphs. Vocalizer strips the layout from input text and uses it in conjunctionwith punctuation to determine phrasing, thereby enabling natural-soundingintonation and pausing at the ends of phrases, sentences, and questions. Textthat is laid out and punctuated in a natural fashion, as it would be for normalwritten text, will be read in a natural predictable way.TIP: For the most natural-sounding speech, try to break very long sentencesinto multiple sentences.This section outlines text normalization rules for:■■■PeriodsHyphens and dashesParentheses and double quotesFor general text normalization rules used to interpret punctuation, see the“Phrasing and punctuation” on page 69.Vocalizer determines the correct interpretation for periods from the context.Periods can be used as:■Sentence terminators—As a general rule, allow two spaces to follow asentence terminator■Abbreviation markers—See “Abbreviations” on page 89■Decimals—See “Decimal fractions” on page 9488Nuance Vocalizer 3.0Developer’s Guide