Fwd: Jovie Rev 0.6 (KDE 4.11) from Linux Mint-16 KDE edition

[Daniel M. St.André]

Colleagues,
     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.

    Any solution to the symptoms I describe will likely require a localized
and profile controlled approach.

    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.

   - The [US] military would say, "fifteen hundred hours" at 3:00 PM.
   - In French, one would say, "*treize heures*" for the same time. (One
   might also say, "*trois heures de l'après-midi*" which is "three hours
   after mid-day."
   - In German, one would say, "*dreizehn heures*" at 3:00 PM. That is
   "thirteen hours".

Note that all three use the word "hours" instead of "o'clock."

Respectfully,
~~~ 0;-Dan

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Daniel M. St.André <dan.st.andre at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:28 PM
Subject: re: Jovie Rev 0.6 (KDE 4.11) from Linux Mint-16 KDE edition
To: Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org>, Gary Cramlitt <
garycramlitt at comcast.net>


Colleagues,
     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.

The Symptom:
     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.

    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.

Respectfully,
~~~ 0;-Dan
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