Correcting 4 digit year number pronunciations
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:35 pm
Some voices will pronounce year numbers as 4 digit numbers, like "One thousand seven hundred and seventy six" for 1776, or "two thousand and eleven" for 2011. You may need to add a pronunciation dictionary entries to have these year numbers pronounced as "seventeen seventy six" and "twenty eleven".
Since year numbers between 2000 and 2009 would normally not be changed, one way to handle is with two dictionary entries, one for handling year numbers earlier than 2000, and another for handling year numbers after 2009.
(1) Year numbers earlier than 2000.
In Pronunciation Dictionary Maintenance, under the Tools menu, add a new dictionary entry. Set the Text Matching dropdown to "Regular Expression", and the Pronounce Using dropdown to "Respell", then set the fields like this:
Regular Expression:
(\b1\d)(\d\d\b)
Respell:
$1 $2
Also, set the caption to something like Year numbers < 2000.
(2) Year numbers greater than 2009
Add a new dictionary entry, setting the Text Matching and Pronounce Using dropdowns as above. Use the following regular expression / respell:
Regular Expression:
(\b2\d)([1-9]\d\b)
Respell:
$1 $2
For the caption use something like Year numbers > 2009
Since year numbers between 2000 and 2009 would normally not be changed, one way to handle is with two dictionary entries, one for handling year numbers earlier than 2000, and another for handling year numbers after 2009.
(1) Year numbers earlier than 2000.
In Pronunciation Dictionary Maintenance, under the Tools menu, add a new dictionary entry. Set the Text Matching dropdown to "Regular Expression", and the Pronounce Using dropdown to "Respell", then set the fields like this:
Regular Expression:
(\b1\d)(\d\d\b)
Respell:
$1 $2
Also, set the caption to something like Year numbers < 2000.
(2) Year numbers greater than 2009
Add a new dictionary entry, setting the Text Matching and Pronounce Using dropdowns as above. Use the following regular expression / respell:
Regular Expression:
(\b2\d)([1-9]\d\b)
Respell:
$1 $2
For the caption use something like Year numbers > 2009