[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk bounty: email TTS

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 07:01:48PM +0800, Craig Guy wrote:
> I'm sure its been brought up previously on the list but I personally don't
> think that TTS is very practical due mostly to all the crap that gets
> stuffed into emails these days. 

start with the simple stuff

> How do you handle:
> 
>     RTF

Not very common

>     HTML

lynx -dump

>     Disclaimers
>     Signatures (inc ascii art sigs)
>     Virus scanner tags

Any idea how to identify them to be ignored?

>     mispellings

no idea

>     abbreviations and SMS type speech (CU L8R, ROFL), smilies
>     quoted replies and nested quoted replies.

Different intonation if at all

>     hyperlinks

normal text

> 
> Sure you can do filters to handle some stuff but it seems to me to be a
> never ending battle to keep filters current.

The sender, subject and time are still readable, regardless of contents.

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