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INTUITY Multimedia Messaging User’s Guide

585-310-748 Issue 2

January 1997

Page 45How the System Interprets Text/E-Mail

How the System Interprets Text/E-Mail

Your system changes e-mail into speech so you can listen to it. The system follows

certain rules to make these changes. Therefore, some parts of an e-mail message may

sound odd because of the way the system interprets it. The following list explains what

things might sound odd.

Acronyms and

ab breviations

that use

capital letters

The system normally pronounces words exactly as they are

spelled. The system also pronounces acronyms as words.

For example, for unicef, the system says “UNICEF.”

The system also pronounces many all-capital abbreviations

letter by letter. For example, for IBM

the system says “I B

M.”

However, the system may inappropriately pronounce some

all-capital abbreviations as words. For example, the

abbreviation VAT stands for the v

alue-added tax typical of

European countries. The system reads this abbreviation as

“vat,” not “V A T.”

If a period (.) appears before a space in an all-caps

abbreviation, the system ignores it. Thus, for V. A. T. , the

system says

“V A T.” If a period is followed by a letter or

number, the system says “period.”

Other

common

abbreviations

The system pronounces many common abbreviations in

their full form. For example, the system pronounces Wed

as “Wednesday,” Mr

as “Mister”, and Oct. as “October.” It

also pronounces re: as “regarding.”

However, some abbreviations may have more than one

interpretation. In these cases, the system may pronounce

the wrong interpretation. For example, Dr could be “drive,”

“doctor,” or “Denver.” But the system is sensitive to the

context of the abbreviation. So if the context is clear, the

system usually uses the correct interpretation.

Dates The system pronounces numbers written with two single slashes

(/) as dates. For example, the system says “April tenth, 1996,” if

written as

04/10/96

. However, the system pronounces 04/10

(without the year) as “four tenths.” Also, the system doesn’t

pronounce numbers with single dashes(-) as dates. For example,

the system says “4 dash 10 dash 96” if written as

4-10-96

Times The system pronounces numbers written with colons as hours

and minutes, including times that use the 24-hour clock. For

example, the system pronounces

10:23

as “ten twenty-three.” The

system also recognizes and pronounces 24-hour-clock time.

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