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NL888 Posted 18 years ago
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01 /299,792,458 reads as "one 01b00slash02b00 two hundred ninety nine million..."?02br
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00The international standard unit of length, approximately equivalent to 39.37 inches. It was redefined in 1983 as the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 01b001/299,792,45802b00 of a second.0-
  

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00 Microsoft Text to Speech software reads it as slash.02br
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00 Native English speakers confirm this please.0-
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0...in one (pause) two hundred ninety-nine million, seven hundred ninety-two thousand, four hundred fifty-01b00eigths02b02br
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00It's a fraction - you'd have to read it sort of like you'd read 1/3 as one third or 3/8 as three eighths. And that's pretty cumbersome with a number like that.02br
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00Othewise, I'd say "one 01b0
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0One thing I know for sure is software is dumb. It's true that computers can crunch an incredible amount of data at the speed of light but they seriously lack intelligence. 0-
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0You don't even need a native speaker to confirm it. It is definitely not spoken as slash. The most probable situation you will hear it pronunced as slash is in URLs, e.g. www.EnglishForward.com/English is pronounced as www dot EnglishForward dot com slash English.02br
00Not all software are so dumb. Opera has a plug-in that can read out the English text on a webpage. It says, ".
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0Actually I wanted to say computers are not as smart as humans, not even close. I don't mean to insult those who work in this field including myself 05000 who happens to be in the artificial intelligence field010id1
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0Sorry, I didn't mean that. I certainly agree with you that even the most advanced software cannot come even close to human in many aspects. I was just saying one software is better than the other. Programming a software to say "one divided by" or "one third" when there is a fraction is well within the reach of current technology. It is surprising that many text-to-speech software are still s
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0There has been some good progress but it's slower than we hope for. 0-
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0Hi guys,02br
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00Here's a comment, since you are interested in software.02br
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00'Software' is uncountable. If you want to talk about specific software, you'd commonly speak of 'a piece of software' or 'a software package'.02br
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01b00 New2grammar, AI is one of the great fields of modern science. Have you ever heard of 02b00William H Calvin, the author of the book How Brains Think, in which he offered, early in 1996, a revolutionary idea of how to make an AI machine just like human brain? I just don't know whether or not he, with his colleagues, has act
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