Chapter 3 - Literal Text
Rule 3.1 - ID: literal_SPEL1
Description
Most text-to-speech (TTS) engines have an algorithm to determine when to spell out a word. The MathSpeak translator should rely on the TTS engine to determine when words should be spell out for narrative (non-mathematical) text.
Example 1 literal_SPEL1-10
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Wallis apostrophe plane left the LAX airport at 5 colon 20 pm at the constant speed of 245 meters slash seconds heading NW period Gema apostrophe s plane left the airport 6 colon 45 pm at the speed of 232 meters slash seconds heading NE period What is the distance in kilometers of the planes by 8 pm question-mark |
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Wallis apostrophe plane left the LAX airport at 5 colon 20 pm at the constant speed of 245 meters slash seconds heading NW period Gema apostrophe s plane left the airport 6 colon 45 pm at the speed of 232 meters slash seconds heading NE period What is the distance in kilometers of the planes by 8 pm question-mark |
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Wallis apostrophe plane left the LAX airport at 5 colon 20 pm at the constant speed of 245 meters slash seconds heading NW period Gema apostrophe s plane left the airport 6 colon 45 pm at the speed of 232 meters slash seconds heading NE period What is the distance in kilometers of the planes by 8 pm question-mark |
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Rule 3.2 - ID: literal_SYM1
Description
Symbols used in narrative text should be interpreted by the MathSpeak symbol lexicon. Some symbols will be interpreted differently because of being in the narrative context.
Rule 3.3 - ID: literal_SPC1
Description
Spaces in narrative are not stated.