Test of Text-to-Speech (TTS) Abbreviations in Waze Clients

[rcenteno_davis]

I have confirmed (as others) that Intl is pronounced as "Intel". So, despite what the road signs say, should we expand Intl as International (for airports)?

[Wolfeye]

Int might work for international?
IA is also an abbreviation for international airport.

[jasonh300]

Int might work for international?
IA is also an abbreviation for international airport.

I don't think Int is any kind of standard abbreviation for International. IA is the abbreviation for the state of Iowa, so that wouldn't work in the U.S.

How about Int'l?

[CBenson]

The last time I checked Int'l was sounded out as "Intel" as well.

[txemt]

I have confirmed, today, that "SH" for "State Highway" is NOT working.

[GizmoGuy411]

I have confirmed, today, that "SH" for "State Highway" is NOT working.

Correct. Along with "SH" I have also just tested for "SH-123" also, and can re-confirm that is still does not work either.

I've also tested for various forms of abbreviations for "Township" and "Township Road" and did not find any that worked.

I'll add these results to the list shortly.

What I did discover was another anomaly, for differing results between the two audio files that are created for any given segment. One file always says just the "Street Name" property contents, while the other file says, the word "At" followed by "Street Name" property contents.

The test for "SH-123" resulted in one audio file that said "At ess-aitch one two three" and the other file said, "ess-aitch one hundred twenty three". Very curious.

The last such similar anomaly was with a test of “Borough”, “Parade”, and “Parish”, by using the abbreviations of "Boro par ph".

One file said "At borough parade phone, and other other said, "borough par pea-aitch".

[AndyPoms]

Pkwy confirmed by several people as Parkway.

[GizmoGuy411]

Pkwy confirmed by several people as Parkway.

Andy, do you happen to know which capitalization variations were confirmed?

Unfortunately, the TTS results are often defendant on capitalization, punctuation, and position with other words, not to mention the other issue I just mentioned in my previous post.

These make the TTS list that much larger and complicated, as most of the early tests did not take any of these depandancy issues into consideration.

[CBenson]

"Pkwy" with the initial capitalization and no punctuation (as used here) gives me TTS of "parkway."

[hmarian]

The same for me.
"Pkwy" is reading out "Parkway" on the client and is more consistent with road signage.
Could someone finish this test and add to the TTS Log FIle?

Once it is done there will be some work to change the segments to Pkwy.

Thanks,
Hagay.