[asterisk-dev] Request for Vote on 5208, SayAlpha does not read special characteres such as "," and "/"

[Julian Lyndon-Smith]

Yes.

Steve Murphy wrote:
> OK, here's the quick summary: If enough developers vote "yes" for this
> enhancement, Digium will pay for the recordings, and include them in the
> core release, along with finishing the code enhancements, in at least
> the trunk.
> 
> The bug is 5208, an ancient enhancement request, submitted in Sept 2005,
> basically requesting that SayAlpha be expanded to include stuff like
> "semicolon" (;) and "colon" (:), and a series of others. This will
> require a few changes to the SayAlpha routines, and a small boatload of
> new sounds.
> 
> As the bug discussion went back and forth, the list of new sounds grew
> to:
> 
> (symbol)  phrase (en)
> (:)        colon
> (;)        semicolon
> (_)        underscore
> (,)        comma
> (|)        pipe
> (\)        back-slash
> (%)        percent
> (~)        tilde
> (^)        carot
> (&)        ampersand
> (()        left paren
> ())        right paren
> ([)        left square brace
> (])        right square brace
> ({)        left curly brace
> (})        right curly brace
> (<)        less-than
> (>)        greater-than
> (')        single-quote
> (")        double-quote
> (?)        question-mark
> (`)        back-quote
> (#)        hash (for the en-GB crowd)
> (#)        pound
> (*)        Asterisk
> 
> Mogorman actually got all these recorded last year in English, but at a
> lower sampling rate, and they don't meet standards any more, and will
> have to be re-recorded.
> 
> If the vote for this addition is positive, I offered to have the
> translators into French/Spanish specify the extra characters that are a
> part of those languages, and the extra phrases that would be necessary
> to record to be able to speak them.
> (You know, like é, and suchlike).I would spend some time and update the
> SayAlpha code to make these work.
> 
> The rub is that the sounds will cost Digium several hundreds of dollars
> to record, and that doesn't count the time that it would take to update
> the code to use the new sounds. Is it worth the effort?
> 
> Rather than burden thousands of folks with your vote by replying via the
> list, please just send to me personally, and I'll tally the results and
> report back in a few days. I don't want to squelch any useful discussion
> about this issue tho, and if you have something to say, go ahead and say
> it. Heck, I didn't even need to say that, did I? ;)
> 
> murf
> 
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