
3-1
3—IVS
ISD-SR3000
ISD
Chapter 3—INTERNATIONAL VOCABULARY SUPPORT (IVS)
and the IVS Tool
3.1
IVS is a mechanism by which the ISD-SR3000 processor utilizes several vocabularies stored
on an external storage device. IVS enables the ISD-SR3000 to synthesize messages with the
same meaning, but in different languages, from separate vocabularies.
INTERNATIONAL VOCABULARY SUPPORT (IVS)
3.2
IVS FEATURES
Multiple vocabularies stored on a single storage device.
Plug-and-play. The same Host Controller code is used for all languages.
Synthesized and recorded messages use the same voice compression algorithm to achieve
equal quality.
Argumented sentences. (For example:
You have <n> messages
.)
Auto-synthesized time-and-day stamp (driven by the ISD-SR3000 processor’s clock).
Support for various language and sentence structures:
– One versus many. (For example: You
have one message
versus
You have two
messages
.)
– None versus many. (For example:
You have no messages
versus
You have two
messages
.)
– Number synthesis (English
—Eighty
versus French—
Quatre-vingt
).
– Word order (English—
Twenty-one
versus German—
Einundzwanzig
).
– Days of the week (Monday through Sunday versus Sunday through Saturday).
3.3
The IVS tool includes two utilities:
THE IVS TOOL
1.
The DOS-based IVS Compiler
2.
IVSTOOL for Windows. A Windows 95/98/2000 utility
The tools help create vocabularies for the ISD-SR3000 processor. They take you from design-
ing the vocabulary structure, through defining the vocabulary sentences, to recording the vo-
cabulary words.