Currency symbols

[jbenny]

I have read quite a few posts and searched, but haven't found how to properly handle the Pound and Euro currency symbols. I'm not very good at regular expressions, but this is what I came up with so far.

{{re=£([\d]+)}}
$1 pounds

This works ok except for when the number is exactly "1", or when the Pound symbol has no number after it. In these cases, it should say "pound" instead of "pounds". I have the same situation with the Euro symbol.

Can anyone help me figure out how to handle the singular/plural aspect? I see that the $ is already handled properly with Crystal, Mike, Kate and Paul (sounds almost like a folk group, doesn't it?).

[D.Leikin]

Hi jbenny,

Introducing something like this couple of regex

Word: {{re=\£([0-9,]+\w)}}
Pronunciation: $1 pounds

Word: {{re=\£1\w}}
Pronunciation: one pound

should probably help fix the 1 pound issue, I hope.

[jbenny]

I originally only had Crystal and Mike. These voices do the $ ok, but don't do anything with the Pound or Euro symbol. Now I have Kate and Paul. I see that they get the Pound correct, but don't support the Euro.

I'll try your suggestions. Hopefully I won't mess up Kate and Paul :-)

[jbenny]

I just tried your expressions and it doesn't make any difference. Crystal/Mike just say the number.

[D.Leikin]

My mistake, try these:

{{re=(\£[1-9][,0-9]+[0-9]+)(\s|\.\s|\,\s)}} -> $1 pounds
{{re=\£([2-9])(\s|\.\s|\,\s)}} -> $1 pounds
{{re=\£1(\s|\.\s|\,\s)}} -> one pound

If they don’t work on strings like

£1, £2, £3. £1,234, £1 £3 £1,234,561, £1234567.

make sure (i) no conflicting edits were left behind in your dictionary, (ii) £ hexadecimal character code is correct.

[jbenny]

Almost. With Crystal/Mike, that works on all numbers I tried execpt on 10-99. It makes Kate/Paul say "pounds" twice. Also, it doesn't work at all if there is a space between the currency symbol and the number.

[D.Leikin]

jbenny,

Thanks for testing those expressions.

Seem to have found the fix for the issues you discovered:

{{re=(\£[1-9][,0-9]*[0-9]+)(\s|\.\s|\,\s)}} -> $1 pounds $2
{{re=(\£\s)([1-9][,0-9]*[0-9]+)(\s|\.\s|\,\s)}} -> $2 pounds $3
{{re=\£(|\s)([2-9])(\s|\.\s|\,\s)}} -> $2 pounds $3
{{re=\£(|\s)1(\s|\.\s|\,\s)}} -> one pound $2

I tried this set with both AT&T and NeoSpeech voices and all of them seem to work ok now.

[jbenny]

That works better, but with numbers of 10 or greater, Kate/Paul say "pounds" twice. This may be more trouble than it's worth. Kate/Paul seem to handle pounds correctly as-is. However, none of the voices seem to handle Euro, so the same solution should work for both currency symbols.

Thanks for trying.