Hi David,
I think our American English version of Eloquence may be different than the
one you're using? Because as Mike and others have pointed out, it is
already speaking a 4-digit year in the way you are proposing (the first two
digits as a number, followed by the last two digits as a number).
I think you are likely to find this varies from synthesizer to synthesizer,
and within each one probably varies from one language version to the next.
Good luck with this!
Chip
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From: David [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:51 AM
To: WE English mailing list
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: To all Natively English speaking users - I need some
feedback:
In my local Non-English language, we often use to divide the four
digit year number, into two groups of two-digits. That is, the year 1995,
would be pronounced as 19 95.
As I am working on the Extended Dictionary app, that has been
anounced on the list earlier, I wanted to know, what is the official way of
pronouncing year numbers in English. Or, at least, what is the general wish
of the community. As you all will have noticed, Eloquence by standard wants
to read out the year as a full four-digit number. At least to me, I find
that rather wearisome, as the number 1981 would produce more verbage, than
would 19 81.
The app is doing quite a bit of Date handling, and there is a chance
here to modify the way of reading year numbers. And, just to calm you all
down, the stuff can easily be modified by the end-user. Yet, I want to know,
if it would be the wish of the community, to have some kind of modified
pronounciation of the years, shipping with the app.
All feedback will be appreciated. Thanks alot,
David
(The Author of the Extended Dictionary app)
PS: The Extended Dictionary appp is currently in its Beta-testing
process. Hopefully, it will be made available to the community later this
summer. Still, this question goes to the whole community, since it has been
considered of vital importance. All the modification the app will be
performing to any speech output, can be fully controled by the user. Even if
the app ships with a set of modifications, the user is free to do what he
wants with the shipped entries.
