Campbell Scientific VSP3 Vosponder Voice Radio Interface - Manual (Page 21)

Section 3. Developing the Voice Image File
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this causes a small pause between the letters and makes the verbalization
clearer.
¾ Punctuation and other characters are verbalized as follows:
• Period, question mark, exclamation mark, and a comma can be used to
create pauses between sentences, words, or letters. Adding any of
these characters consecutively will create a longer pause. Each of
these characters adds a little less than a one-half-second delay (i.e., 12
periods will cause a 5-second delay)
• # is spoken as “number” (i.e., Station # 5 would be spoken as
“Station number five”)
• $ is spoken as “dollar”
• * is spoken as “star”
• & is spoken as “and”
• % is spoken as “percent”
• = is spoken as “equals”
• + is spoken as “plus”
• > is spoken as “greater than”
• < is spoken as “less than”
¾ The Vosponder can reproduce most words. However, if you find a word
that is not spoken correctly, then spell the word phonetically. The
Vosponder will then verbalize it correctly. For example, if the name of the
site location were “Duchesne River” (pronounced Do Shane River), the
Vosponder would not pronounce it correctly using that spelling. However,
by spelling the site name as “Dewshane River” or “Do Shane River” the
Vosponder would now pronounce the site name correctly.
¾ Foreign languages are not supported at this time. However, many words
may be spoken by using a phonetic spelling. For example, “the water
level” in Spanish would be spelled “el nivel del agua”. The Vosponder
could speak this phrase by entering text as “el neevel del augwah”.
However, the data value will still be spoken only in English. Exception
and foreign language dictionaries for the Vosponder may be available.
Contact a technical support representative at (435) 755-0300 or e-mail
your inquiry to [email protected].
3.3 Using the Voice Image Development Software
Install the Image Development Software program on your computer. You
should see the image maker shortcut icon appear on your desktop after the
program has been installed. Double-click on the image maker icon to open the
program.
The Image Development program is a basic Java Script that will open in any
browser such as Internet Explorer. The program has four basic options; these
are denoted by an icon in the upper left section of the screen.
Icon Text Purpose
Sheet of Paper
New Creates a new voice image file
Folder Open Opens an existing voice image file for editing
Diskette Save Saves the current voice image file as a .txt file
Plus Sign Add Phrase Add a sentence to the open voice image file