Dictionary Maker / News: Recent posts

New Features:
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- A totally new version of the manual has been created, together with a tutorial document.

Bug fixes:
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- The cursor behaves more consistently and returns to the correct place.
- Ambiguous words' pronunciations are displayed correctly.
- Auto and Incremental modes removed until Incremental mode can be fixed.
- File > Close menu option works correctly now.
- Phonemes with number and special characters load correctly.
- Already classified words are no longer displayed to the user.
- Changed pronunciations can be saved when the same category button is clicked. It used to be only saved if a different category was clicked.... read more

Bug fixes:
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- The rule extraction dialogue only appears as long as necessary, and not longer.
- The phoneme mapping tool now supports the use of numbers in phonemes. Before the use of this character would result in the mapping tool failing to import the dictionary.
- If an unknown phoneme is encountered, it is added into the 'New' category with 'bing.wav' as its default sound.
- If phonemes are edited, the expanded phoneme panel now reflects changes in name and category made.... read more

DictionaryMaker is a graphical tool for creating electronic pronunciation dictionaries (for natural languages). The system allows a user to develop a pronunciation dictionary without requiring expert linguistic knowledge or programming expertise.

Bug fix:
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The phoneme mapping tool now supports the use of the back-slash character (/) in phonemes. Before the use of this character would result in the mapping tool failing to export the dictionary.... read more

Severe Bug fix
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Word pronunciations (phonemes) containing numbers were not loaded when opening the project, this resulted in a
reduced total word figure. Word pronunciations containing numbers are now supported.

New Features
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Enhancements have been made to the phoneme mapping tool used when exporting dictionaries.
The user can now create the following types of mappings:
one to many, e.g. ao; A O
many to one, e.g. a o; AO

Bug fixes
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The default update mode has been changed to the auto update mode.

The information written to the log file has been reduced to only contain critical information. This was done to limit the size of the log file
after working on a large project.

The word filter now works properly. Previously it would filter words without considering the latest character entered by the user.... read more

Bug fixes
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New rules are now extracted when importing a Dictionary during project creation, or during a session via the menu option.

The current batch size when in batch mode now only increments if a words pronunciation is changed. Before it would increment
when a word was verified as correct with the predicted pronunciation, but no new rules would be added in this case.

A rule extraction message dialog box is now shown when ever rules are extracted.... read more