Nuance Vocalizer Developer's Guide - Avaya Support

that 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:■■PeriodsParentheses and double quotesFor general text normalization rules used to interpret punctuation, see the“Phrasing and punctuation” on page 69.PeriodsVocalizer 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 106■Decimals—See “Cardinals and decimal fractions” on page 108Parentheses 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(buenos días)buenos días)“buenos días”«buenos días»Outputbuenos díasbuenos días cierra paréntesisbuenos díasbuenos díasAppendix B Text processing for American SpanishPhrasing and punctuation105