| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 210.1 | An Abbr. | PABLO::SLOANE | REPLY TO TOPDOC::SLOANE | Tue Jun 24 1986 13:03 | 5 |
| Virginia -
They called her Virgin for short.
But not for long.
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| 210.2 | Print-to-spoken | EVER::MCVAY | Pete McVay | Tue Jun 24 1986 14:48 | 3 |
| Those abbreviations gave DECtalk fits during development.
Ever see a Street-Bernard puppy?
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| 210.3 | Robert | THEBAY::GOYETTE | Paul Goyette | Tue Jun 24 1986 16:15 | 1 |
| What happened to Robt.?
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| 210.4 | | EVER::MCVAY | Pete McVay | Wed Jun 25 1986 14:01 | 3 |
| re: .3
I don't know. He was fine last time I saw him...
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| 210.5 | he's in for the yankees/sox games | ROXIE::OSMAN | and silos to fill before I feep, and silos to fill before I feep | Wed Jun 25 1986 15:46 | 5 |
| He arrived Monday ! I think he was at the ballgame last night. If
you have a message for him, send me mail, as I'll probably
speak to him tonight.
/Eric
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| 210.6 | | MARVIN::HARPER | | Sun Jun 29 1986 19:58 | 2 |
| Chas. Charles
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| 210.7 | yuk | CEDSWS::SESSIONS | Captain Video | Wed Jul 16 1986 13:00 | 4 |
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I thought the abbreviation for Robert was Bob.
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| 210.8 | There *is* a difference | VOGON::GOODENOUGH | Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading-UK | Wed Jul 16 1986 13:33 | 6 |
| Re: .7 (Bob vs. Robt.)
Chas., Jas., Thos., Robt. et al are *formal* abbreviations, sometimes
used in addressing letters, etc.
Chuck, Jim, Tom, Bob, are *familiar* abbreviations.
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| 210.9 | not abbreviations | DELNI::CANTOR | Dave Cantor | Wed Jul 16 1986 13:52 | 6 |
| Re .8
Chuck, Jim, Tom, and Bob are not abbreviations at all; they
are nicknames.
Dave C.
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| 210.10 | Street Bernard puppy defined.... | CYGNUS::VHAMBURGER | Vic Hamburger IND-2/B4 262-8261 | Fri Jan 30 1987 12:44 | 10 |
| re: .2 A Street Bernard Puppy, as DECtalk would have pronounced
it......
Is a Street Bernard what you might otherwise describe as a
road-pizza? (puppy that has been hit by a car for those not familiar
with the term.)
Sorry to be so late, I have jsut started reading Joyoflex......
8^)--->
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| 210.11 | Correct me if I'm wrong. | APTECH::RSTONE | >>>>----He went that-a-way!----> | Tue Feb 03 1987 09:12 | 8 |
| Re: .10
From my early experiments with DECtalk, I seem to recall that the
device was programmed to recognize the correct pronounciation of
the certain abbreviations, such as _St._, based on its context.
St. - _Saint_ vs. _Street_
Dr. - _Doctor_ vs. _Drive_
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| 210.12 | Fun fooling a poor simple computer | MAY13::MINOW | Martin Minow, MSD A/D, THUNDR::MINOW | Tue Feb 03 1987 16:21 | 23 |
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St. - _Saint_ vs. _Street_
Dr. - _Doctor_ vs. _Drive_
Ayup, but you can still fool it -- DECtalk looks for capitalization
before and after the offending word (or is that just after?). Thus
St. Louis St.
and Dr. Zhivago Dr.
are pronunced correctly. Preceeding the abbreviation with a capitalized
word as in "A St. Bernard puppy" might through it off.
Blame me for the programming of the heuristics, and Pete for the manual.
Actually, it's unfair to blame Pete -- he came into the project quite
late and put together two very good manuals in a *very* short amount
of time.
He was a good writer as writers go, and as good writers go, he went.
Martin.
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| 210.13 | Nice DECtalk | PASTIS::MONAHAN | | Wed Feb 04 1987 15:16 | 4 |
| A couple of years ago they had a large show for press from all
over Europe, and the theme was determined around a fictitious company,
the Nice Umbrella Company. Being only about 20 miles from Nice,
it was rather context-sensitive.
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| 210.14 | ~ | VIDEO::OSMAN | and silos to fill before I feep, and silos to fill before I feep | Mon Feb 09 1987 12:35 | 15 |
| If you have DECtalk hooked up such that it merely pronounces everything
you type in, you'll notice that if you type various punctuation characters,
DECtalk says what they are, things like "LEFT CURLEY BRACE".
Try these:
~cows come home
you would be an * it
if the fire goes out, put more :
Do they work ?
/Eric
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