Lucent Technologies 585-310-748 manual Fractions

INTUITY Multimedia Messaging User’s Guide 585-310-748	Issue 2
	January 1997
How the System Interprets Text/E-Mail	Page 46

Fractions	The system recognizes a slash (/) with a number before and after
and	it as a fraction. For example, for 1/3, the system says “one third.”
Decimals	The system also recognizes decimal points. For example, for
	2.50, the system says “two point five zero.”
Punctuation1	The system ignores most punctuation, including the following:

■Comma (,)

■Exclamation point (!)

■Parentheses ()

■Dash (–), except with numbers before and after it

■Colon and semicolon

■Brackets, both square [ ] and curly { }

■Question mark (?)

■Slash (/) and backslash (\)

■Double quotes (“)

■Smily face — colon and right parenthesis ( :) )

■Apostrophe (‘). NOTE: The system pronounces contractions correctly.

1.The system ignores a period(.) at the end of a sentence or when a space follows the period. The system says “period” if text follows the period. For example, U.S.A. is pronounced “U period S period A.”