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on 3/24/02 6:42 PM, Etienne Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I remember from the days I used Gerry ICQ, that there was a separate field
> in the buddy info dialog that was the name text-to-speech used in spoken
> alerts regarding this buddy.
> For example, my french name is best said A T N or Eh T N by text-to-speech.
>
> Fire understandably uses the buddy alias for this task, but some aliases
> don't sound too well and often a phonetic version of the alias give much
> better results.
> This in especially true for non English names, which I use a lot. It is also
> the case when someone has a alias like Joe@work and Joe@home. All I care to
> hear is that I have a message from Joe, so both buddies could be spoken as
> Joe, but displayed in the list using the more complete actual alias.
>
> So, as a feature request, would it be possible to keep the current alias
> field that would be used for list display purposes and by default for spoken
> alerts, and then add a second field for those who prefer an alternate
> pronunciation for some buddies?
Please file a feature request for this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fire
-Jason
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