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# Orca
#
# Copyright 2006-2008 Sun Microsystems Inc.
#
# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
# License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
# version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# Lesser General Public License for more details.
#
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# Free Software Foundation, Inc., Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
# Boston MA 02110-1301 USA.
"""Exposes a dictionary, pronunciation_dict, that maps words to what
they sound like."""
__id__ = "$Id$"
__version__ = "$Revision$"
__date__ = "$Date$"
__copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Sun Microsystems Inc."
__license__ = "LGPL"
def getPronunciation(word, pronunciations=None):
"""Given a word, return a string that represents what this word
sounds like. Note: This code does not handle the pronunciation
of character names. That should be handled at the speech provider
or synthesizer level. For instance the symbols.dic files installed
in /usr/share/speech-dispatcher.
Arguments:
- word: the word to get the "sounds like" representation for.
- pronunciations: an optional dictionary used to get the pronunciation
from.
Returns a string that represents what this word sounds like, or
the word if there is no representation.
"""
lowerWord = word.lower()
dictionary = pronunciations or pronunciation_dict
entry = dictionary.get(lowerWord, [word, word])
return entry[1]
def setPronunciation(word, replacementString, pronunciations=None):
"""Given an actual word, and a replacement string, set a key/value
pair in a pronunciation dictionary.
Arguments:
- word: the word to be pronunced.
- replacementString: the replacement string to use instead.
- pronunciations: an optional dictionary used to set the pronunciation
into.
"""
key = word.lower()
if pronunciations is not None:
pronunciations[key] = [ word, replacementString ]
else:
pronunciation_dict[key] = [ word, replacementString ]
# pronunciation_dict is a dictionary where the keys are words and the
# values represent word the pronunciation of that word (in other words,
# what the word sounds like).
#
pronunciation_dict = {}
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