[BRLTTY] Say Time
Mario Lang
mlang at delysid.org
Mon May 21 17:01:43 EDT 2012
Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:
> [quoted lines by Mario Lang on 2012/05/21 at 18:35 +0200]
>
>>12/24 hour format (AM/PM on/off) comes to mind.
>
> I decided to look around a bit. So far, I have:
>
> Time Format: 12 Hour, 24 Hour
> Time Separator: :, .
> Date Position: None, Before Time, After Time
> Date Format: Year Month Day, Month Day Year, Day Month Year
> Date Separator: -, /, .
Maybe add space to date separator?
Month Format: Numers, Names
It could be useful to include the name of the day of the week though.
>>> Also, is it possible that date/time is one value which may best be
>>> represented differently in braille versus speech?
>>
>>I guess yes. While some speech backends implement some matching rules
>>to speak typical shorthand date/time formats correctly, not all do. So
>>we could try to generate an already "expanded" string for speech.
>
> What about month names versus numbers? To me, names sound better with speech
> but numbers look better in braille. That might just be me, though.
I tend to agree, so take the suggestion above with a grain of salt.
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CYa,
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