<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Colleagues,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"> I wrote to the folks who manage the Jovie speech engine for KDE. After some thought, I decided that you needed to hear about this as well. Please review the following symptom description.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"> Any solution to the symptoms I describe will likely require a localized and profile controlled approach.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"> Thinking more about this situation, there are other issues in play when speaking 24-hour time. I am most familiar with "military" use of 24-hour time, but I am aware that there are several European uses with different conventions.<br>
<ul><li>The [US] military would say, "fifteen hundred hours" at 3:00 PM. <br></li><li>In French, one would say, "<i>treize heures</i>" for the same time. (One might also say, "<i>trois heures de l'après-midi</i>" which is "three hours after mid-day." <br>
</li><li>In German, one would say, "<i><i>dreizehn</i> heures</i>" at 3:00 PM. That is "thirteen hours".</li></ul></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Note that all three use the word "hours" instead of "o'clock."</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Respectfully,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">
~~~ 0;-Dan<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel M. St.André</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan.st.andre@gmail.com" target="_blank">dan.st.andre@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:28 PM<br>Subject: re: Jovie Rev 0.6 (KDE 4.11) from Linux Mint-16 KDE edition<br>To: Jeremy Whiting <<a href="mailto:jpwhiting@kde.org" target="_blank">jpwhiting@kde.org</a>>, Gary Cramlitt <<a href="mailto:garycramlitt@comcast.net" target="_blank">garycramlitt@comcast.net</a>><br>
<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Colleagues,<br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"> I run Jovie on my workstation to speak the time at the top of each hour. In addition, I have my time configured for 24-hour time. I write not knowing if this is a clock app or speech app issue.<br>
<br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">The Symptom:<br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"> When speaking times in the afternoon, I get announcements like, "it is thirteen o'clock" or "it is twenty-two o'clock." Morning times are also, "it is nine o'clock" and so on. The former sound strange while the latter sound fine. However, using 24-hour time, one does not speak "o'clock" for any time regardless of morning or afternoon.<br>
<br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"> I suspect that Jovie gets a text string from the desktop widget and simply speaks what it receives. If that is the case, I must track down those folks and write to them.<br>
<br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Respectfully,<br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">~~~ 0;-Dan<br></div></div>
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