apostrophes

[marty]

Hi,

i'm using Callie 4.2 .... swifttalker handles apostrophes OK, but in my application (written in Authorware 7), i'm getting unusual pronunciations. e.g. "didn't" sounds like "didentee".

i import test from a '.txt' file - do i perhaps need another file format?

has anyone dealt with this before?

thanks,
Marty

[jleoni]

Perhaps create a custom lexicon for special situations as this. The file format isn't going to make a diffence. It's how the engine is parsing the data. The other thing you could do would be to build a custom parser before you pass the data to Swift and change "didn't" to "did not" or "didnt" with the latter having a custom lexicon.

[m0user]

There seems to be two different types of apostrophes for simple text.

I've shown the difference in the following post. Try these two examples out and see if there is a difference.

http://www.cepstral.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=340#340