Nuance Vocalizer Developer's Guide - Avaya Support

Hyphens and dashesSince hyphens, dashes, and minus signs are represented by the same ASCIIcharacter, ambiguous situations may occur at times. To avoid ambiguoussituations, Vocalizer uses a set of disambiguation rules. Specifically, Vocalizerconsiders the “-” character to be:■■■■A trait d’union if located between letters and consider each side as being partof the same word if in dictionary.A signe de moins if followed by a number, indicating a negative number.A tiret and pronounced “à” if located between two numbers without a spaceas in number intervals or game scores.A trait d’union if preceded by a letter and followed by a carriage return plus aletter. The words on either side of the hyphen are joined and handled as asingle word.Parentheses and double quotesVocalizer handles parentheses and double quotes. If a closing parenthesis ordouble quote occurs without any preceding matching symbol, for example, anopen parenthesis, Vocalizer reads the close parenthesis or double quote as text.For example:Input text(salut)salut)“salut”«salut»Outputsalutsalut parenthèsesalutsalutAbbreviationsAbbreviations may consist of one or more alphabetic characters, which areeither all lowercase, all uppercase, or have an uppercase first letter followed bylowercase letters. You can separate abbreviations from words by adding:■A period and a space—For example, Vocalizer, v. 3■A period only—For example, Vocalizer, v.3■A space only—For example, Vocalizer, v 3Appendix A Text processing for Canadian FrenchAbbreviations89