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Time Rules for French (Canada)

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Time rules recognize expressions of time based on both a 12-hour and 24-hour clock.

When the user says a number between 1 and 12 and does not specify morning or afternoon, the Time rule returns a value in the Hour element representing the hours from 7 A.M. to 6 P.M. as the assumed value and a value in the AlternateHour hour element representing the hours from 7 P.M. to 6 A.M. For example, if the user says "une heure," the assumed value is 1 P.M. and the alternate value is 1 A.M.

The Time rules recognize expressions such as the following: "dix heures du matin, midi et demie, sept heures, six heures moins cinq, dix heures et deux minutes, dix heures moins quart, quinze heures et quart, sept heures vingt-cinq du matin, dix-huit heures vingt."

Rules

Time

Time_Hour

Time_HourNum_2_to_11

Time_HourNum_13_to_23

Time_BeforeAfter

Time_Minute

Time_AmPm

Usage

<ruleref uri="Library.grxml#Time" type="application/srgs+xml"/>
<ruleref uri="Library.grxml#Time_Hour" type="application/srgs+xml"/>
<ruleref uri="Library.grxml#Time_HourNum_2_to_11" type="application/srgs+xml"/>
<ruleref uri="Library.grxml#Time_HourNum_13_to_23" type="application/srgs+xml"/>
<ruleref uri="Library.grxml#Time_BeforeAfter" type="application/srgs+xml"/>
<ruleref uri="Library.grxml#Time_Minute" type="application/srgs+xml"/>
<ruleref uri="Library.grxml#Time_AmPm" type="application/srgs+xml"/>

The grammar can be used as follows (using the Time rule as an example).

<grammar xmlns:sapi="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Speech/2002/06/SRGSExtensions"
         xml:lang="fr-CA" tag-format="semantics-ms/1.0" version="1.0" mode="voice"
         root="Rule1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/06/grammar">
    <rule id="Rule1" scope="public">
        <ruleref uri="Library.grxml#Time" type="application/srgs+xml"/>
    <tag>$ = $$</tag>
    </rule>
</grammar>

JScript Objects

Rule Name JScript Objects Returned

Time

 
$Time.Hour
????????$Time.Hour._value: integer [0...23]
????????$Time.Hour._name: string ["assumed", "explicit"]
$Time.Minute
????????$Time.Minute: integer [0...59]
$Time.AlternateHour._value: integer [0...23]

Time_Hour

 
$Time_Hour
????????$Time_Hour.Hour
????????????????$Time_Hour.Hour._value: integer [0...23]
????????????????$Time_Hour.Hour._name: string ["assumed", "explicit"]
????????$Time_Hour.AlternateHour._value: integer [0...23]

Time_HourNum_2_to_11

 
$Time_HourNum_2_to_11
????????$Time_HourNum_2_to_11._value: integer [2...11]

Time_HourNum_13_to_23

 
$Time_HourNum_13_to_23
????????$Time_HourNum_13_to_23._value: integer [13...23]

Time_BeforeAfter

 
$Time_BeforeAfter
????????$Time_BeforeAfter._hour: integer [0, -1]
????????$Time_BeforeAfter._minute: integer [0...59]

Time_Minute

 
$Time_Minute
????????$Time_Minute._value: integer [1...59]

Time_AmPm

 
$Time_AmPm
????????$Time_AmPm._value: string ["AM", "PM"]

Examples: Time

Example 1

User says: "une heure de l???apr??s-midi"

SML returned by the recognition engine.

<SML text="une heure de l???apr??s-midi" utteranceConfidence="1.000" confidence="1.000">

????????<Hour confidence="1.000">

????????????????13

????????????????<_name confidence="1.000">explicit</_name>

????????</Hour>

????????<AlternateHour confidence="1.000"></AlternateHour>

????????<Minute confidence="1.000">0 </Minute>

</SML>

Example 2

User says: "neuf heures du matin."

SML returned by the recognition engine.

<SML text="neuf heures du matin" utteranceConfidence="1.000" confidence="1.000">

????????<Hour confidence="1.000">

????????????????9

????????????????<_name confidence="1.000">explicit<_name>

????????</Hour>

????????<AlternateHour confidence="1.000"></AlternateHour>

????????<Minute confidence="1.000">0</Minute>

</SML>

Examples: Time_BeforeAfter

Example 1

User says: "et quart."

SML returned by the recognition engine.

<SML text="et quart" utteranceConfidence="1.000" confidence="1.000">

????????<_minute confidence="1.000">15</_minute>

????????<_hour confidence="1.000">0</_hour>

</SML>

Example 2

User says: "moins quart."

SML returned by the recognition engine.

<SML text="moins quart" utteranceConfidence="1.000" confidence="1.000">

????????<_minute confidence="1.000">45</_minute>

????????<_hour confidence="1.000">-1</_hour>

</SML>

Examples: Time_AmPm

Example 1

User says: "du matin."

SML returned by the recognition engine.

<SML text="du matin" utteranceConfidence="1.000" confidence="1.000">AM</SML>

Example 2

User says: "du soir."

SML returned by the recognition engine.

<SML text="du soir" utteranceConfidence="1.000" confidence="1.000">PM</SML>