Fractions
Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 10:16 am
I have everything pretty much set up for what I need. Can you provide a Regular Expression code for allowing TA to read fractions correctly? Such as 7/8, 1/2, 5/8.
Thanks
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To really pronounce the fractions correctly I think you're going to need several regular expressions. Maybe someone else will have some better ideas, but here is what I'm thinking.
1/2, 1/3 and 2/3 would probably work best with one dictionary entry for each fraction. So for these you could use regular expressions or simple text matches, but here are regular expression:
\b1/2\b
one half
\b1/3\b
one third
\b2/3\b
two thirds
Now add another expression, after the above expressions, to handle all fractions of the form 1/n. Should be able to pronounce these as 1 nth, like this:
\b1/(\d{1,2})\b
1 $1th
At this point, if the numerator is > 1, the extra 's' makes things tricky. (2 5ths, 3 7ths, etc). In general I could not get a string like 2 5ths to be pronounced correctly. So I needed individual expressions to substitute the words fourths, fifths, sixths, and so on, like this:
\b([2-9])/4\b
$1 fourths
\b([2-9])/5\b
$1 fifths
So maybe start off with these, and experiment some. You may be able find a way to consolidate the fourths / fifths / sixths expressions. It may depend on the voice you're using as well.