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NAME

Text::AsReadWithoutIntonation - Perl extension for converting sentences to text resembling the way it would be read without intonation.

SYNOPSIS

  use Text::AsReadWithoutIntonation;
  $readWord = Text::AsReadWithoutIntonation:inSpanish($text);

DESCRIPTION

Perl extension for converting sentences to text resembling the way it would be read without intonation (no questions, no pauses or any other prosodic clues).

EXPORT

None by default.

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

Alberto Montero, <amonero@gsi.dit.upm.es>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2007 by Alberto Montero

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

inSpanish

Convert the given sentence to text resembling the way it would be read without intonation (no questions, no pauses or any other prosodic clues).

Non interpretable symbols are supressed.

Numbers are read in spanish. If ª or º is supplied, appropiated gender is used.

Roman numbers lower than or equal to 10 are read as ordinals, and cardinals otherwise.

Supported currencies are euros and dollars.

Mathematical symbols are equal, plus and percentage

'@' is correctly read

wordInSpanish

Read the supplied single word in spanish, with the same conventions as inSpanish.

_readSymbolBySymbolInSpanish

Read the supplied single word in spanish, symbol by symbol

2 POD Errors

The following errors were encountered while parsing the POD:

Around line 82:

'=item' outside of any '=over'

=over without closing =back

Around line 88:

Non-ASCII character seen before =encoding in 'ª'. Assuming UTF-8