Configure Speech Lexicon 

   When you click the Configure Speech Lexicon button in the Configuration Toolbox, the dialog opens as displayed in the following image:

The Speech Lexicon tool enables you to define how words and phrases will be pronounced by the speech engine used by the Alarm Dialer system. The lexicon settings are used with the Alarm Dialer system to notify designated operators by phone when alarms of a user-defined priority have gone unacknowledged for a user-defined amount of time (see Dialer Options).

When contacting a designated operator, the speech engine speaks a greeting, the name of the designated operator (as defined in the operator's contact record on the active roster tag, and the names and descriptions of the unacknowledged alarms so that the designated operator can acknowledge the alarms and determine solutions to any problems.

Although the speech engine will pronounce many words plainly and without a flaw, some abbreviations, place names, operator names, and alarm messages must be individually reviewed and adjusted so that they are pronounced clearly by the speech engine.

The section below contains instructions on using the Configure Speech Lexicon tool.

Set Dialer Pronunciation

1.   Click the Configure Speech Lexicon button in the configuration toolbox.

The Configure Speech Lexicon dialog opens to display the current lexicon contents.

2.   Click the Add button. The Add Lexicon Word dialog opens as shown.

3.   Enter the word, phrase, or place name in the Key field.

4.   Click the Speak button to the right of the Word field. The speech engine speaks the word, name, or phrase in the Key field.

In most cases, at least one part of the word or phrase will not be pronounced the way it should. Continue through the next few steps to create your own pronunciation of each word

5.   In the Phonetic Spelling field, enter the word or phrase using a phonetic spelling, rather than a dictionary-correct spelling.

Note that in the Phonemes field, a series of what appears to be random letters and numbers will be automatically placed. This is a phonetic symbol language used by the speech engine.

6.   Click the Speak button to the right of the phonetic spelling field. The speech engine speaks the word, name, or phrase as you have spelled it.. You may have to repeat steps 5 and 6 several times to adjust the translation until it sounds as you would like.

7.   Click the OK button. The word, name, or phrase is added to the Special Words list of the Dialer Pronunciation dialog.

8.   Click the Add button to add another word, name, or phrase, to the "Current Lexicon Contents" list. Click the OK button to close the Dialer Pronunciation dialog.

You can add, test, and configure as many unusual words, phrases, names, roots, abbreviations, places, and operator names as you require.

VALID PHONEMES LIST

Phoneme	Example		Phoneme	Example
-	syllable boundary (hyphen)		h	h as in help
!	sentence terminator (exclamation mark)		ih	i as in fill
&	word boundary		iy	ee as in feel
,	sentence terminator (comma)		jh	j as in joy
.	sentence terminator (period)		k	c as in cut
?	sentence terminator (question mark)		l	l as in lid
_	silence (underscore)		m	m as in mat
1	primary stress		n	n as in no
2	secondary stress		ng	ng as in sing
aa	a as in father		ow	o as in go
ae	a as in cat		oy	o as in toy
ah	u as in cut		p	p as in put
ao	o as in dog		r	r as in red
aw	ou as in foul		s	s as in sit
ax	a as in ago		sh	sh as in she
ay	i as in bite		t	t as in talk
b	b as in big		th	th as in thin
ch	ch as in chin		uh	oo as in book
d	d as in dig		uw	oo as in too
dh	th as in then		v	v as in vat
eh	e as in pet		w	w as in with
er	ur as in fur		y	y as in yard
ey	a as in ate		z	z as in zap
f	f as in fork		zh	s as in pleasure
g	g as in gut