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Nuance parameter settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Connecting Vocalizer to a resource manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Running Vocalizer without a resource manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Using the Nuance Watcher to start Vocalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Starting Vocalizer automatically with a Watcher startup file . . . . . . 21Communicating with Vocalizer through the Watcher . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Enabling Vocalizer logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Directing requests to a specific TTS server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Chapter 4. Playing TTS prompts from your application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Using Nuance prompt playback functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27SpeechObjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28NuanceSpeechChannel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28RCEngine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Using TTS in a VoiceXML application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29VoiceXML 1.0 elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30SSML 1.0 elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32SSML sample text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Resolving XML parsing errors with predefined entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39URI formats for the SSML element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Chapter 5. Starting Vocalizer through the Launcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Using the Vocalizer Launcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Configuration editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Status window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Chapter 6. Preprocessing text input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Passing email messages to Vocalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Features of the Email Reader Configuration Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Using the Email Reader Configuration Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Distributing changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Creating custom filters for text replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Applying filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Using the Text Replacement Filter Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53ivNuance Vocalizer 3.0Developer’s Guide
Distributing changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Chapter 7. Generating audio files from text input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Using the Offline Audio Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Validating multi-server configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Chapter 8. Customizing your application’s dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Features of the Dictionary Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Audio feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Word details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Phoneme set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Audio scratchpad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Using the Dictionary Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Enabling logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Adding new entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Modifying dictionary entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Testing your entries in Scratchpad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67Deleting entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67Distributing dictionary changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68Chapter 9. Techniques for enhancing audio output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Phrasing and punctuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Periods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Hyphens and dashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Parentheses and double quotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72Apostrophes and single quotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Single-letter abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Ambiguous abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74Homographic abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74Measurement and numeric abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75Acronyms and initials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76Note on capitalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Cardinals and ordinals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Contentsv
Page 1 and 2: Nuance Vocalizer3.0Developer’s Gu
Page 3: ContentsAbout this guide . . . . .
Page 7 and 8: Percentages . . . . . . . . . . . .
Page 9 and 10: About this guideNuance Vocalizer pr
Page 11 and 12: (interactive voice response) platfo
Page 13 and 14: Chapter 1Introducing NuanceVocalize
Page 15 and 16: Chapter 2Installing Nuance Vocalize
Page 17 and 18: Installing Nuance VocalizerInstalli
Page 19 and 20: tcsh-$] cd $NUANCEtcsh-$] source SE
Page 21 and 22: Chapter 3Configuring Vocalizer with
Page 23 and 24: Starting a Vocalizer TTS serverComm
Page 25 and 26: vocalizer lm.Addresses=hostname:847
Page 27 and 28: [-text_type type][-voice voice_name
Page 29 and 30: lm.AddressesDefines the location (m
Page 31 and 32: esource-manager rm.Port=8584> vocal
Page 33 and 34: host_1WatcherWatcherRecognitionserv
Page 35 and 36: Enabling Vocalizer logsNote: For mo
Page 37 and 38: vocalizer lm.Addresses=hostname:847
Page 39 and 40: Chapter 4Playing TTS prompts fromyo
Page 41 and 42: Note: The TTSPrompt class described
Page 43 and 44: Table 1: Nested elements (continued
Page 45 and 46: Table 2: Supported SSML 1.0 element
Page 51 and 52: Resolving XML parsing errors with p
Page 53 and 54: Table 3 and Table 4 demonstrate the
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Chapter 5Starting Vocalizer through
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■Vocalizer configuration■■■
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Chapter 6Preprocessing text input6V
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The Text In box displays a sample R
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Distributing changesSome email sign
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“My computer is broken. sad face
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Chapter 7Generating audio files fro
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■■Use this text—Enter text in
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Chapter 8Customizing yourapplicatio
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Depending on which tabbed pane you
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Word detailsThe Word Details sectio
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Enabling loggingYou can edit the Di
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Testing your entries in ScratchpadW
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Chapter 9Techniques for enhancingau
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Note: The last character in a sente
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■■■A closing single quote if
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As mentioned earlier, Vocalizer exp
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NumbersCardinals and ordinalsVocali
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FractionsVocalizer recognizes fract
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Input texthello12345z4523bOutput te
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Input textOutput textU.K. formats45
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Input text Output: North American f
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Appendix AText processing forCanadi
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Hyphens and dashesSince hyphens, da
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Measurement and numeric abbreviatio
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Input text1234ièmeOutputmille deux
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number to be recognized as an imper
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CurrencyVocalizer recognizes the fo
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Input textCO. 44666-1234OutputColor
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Input texthttp://support.nuance.com
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Appendix BText processing forAmeric
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that is laid out and punctuated in
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Homographic abbreviationsHomographi
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indicate decimals. In CALA mode, pe
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Input textOutput1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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■Dollar sign ($, $US, US$), inclu
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Input textOutput6 Ene. 2004 seis de
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Input textMrs. Chandler7449 Rupert
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IndexAalaw encoding 13APIs 27Nuance
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portschanging settings 20dictionary
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