Colleagues,
I wrote to the folks who manage the Jovie speech engine for KDE. After
some thought, I decided that you needed to hear about this as well. Please
review the following symptom description.
Any solution to the symptoms I describe will likely require a localized
and profile controlled approach.
Thinking more about this situation, there are other issues in play when
speaking 24-hour time. I am most familiar with "military" use of 24-hour
time, but I am aware that there are several European uses with different
conventions.
- The [US] military would say, "fifteen hundred hours" at 3:00 PM.
- In French, one would say, "*treize heures*" for the same time. (One
might also say, "*trois heures de l'après-midi*" which is "three hours
after mid-day."
- In German, one would say, "*dreizehn heures*" at 3:00 PM. That is
"thirteen hours".
Note that all three use the word "hours" instead of "o'clock."
Respectfully,
~~~ 0;-Dan
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Daniel M. St.André <dan.st.an...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:28 PM
Subject: re: Jovie Rev 0.6 (KDE 4.11) from Linux Mint-16 KDE edition
To: Jeremy Whiting <jpwhit...@kde.org>, Gary Cramlitt <
garycraml...@comcast.net>
Colleagues,
I run Jovie on my workstation to speak the time at the top of each
hour. In addition, I have my time configured for 24-hour time. I write not
knowing if this is a clock app or speech app issue.
The Symptom:
When speaking times in the afternoon, I get announcements like, "it is
thirteen o'clock" or "it is twenty-two o'clock." Morning times are also,
"it is nine o'clock" and so on. The former sound strange while the latter
sound fine. However, using 24-hour time, one does not speak "o'clock" for
any time regardless of morning or afternoon.
I suspect that Jovie gets a text string from the desktop widget and
simply speaks what it receives. If that is the case, I must track down
those folks and write to them.
Respectfully,
~~~ 0;-Dan
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