NTT docomo FOMA SO706i Instruction Manual page 171

■Amount of money
If a currency symbol (e.g. "￥" (single-byte or double-
byte)) is placed at the beginning of a number up to 16
digits long, the FOMA terminal reads out the number
as amount of money.
If commas (,) are used as a delimiting character in an input
string, the FOMA will recognize the string as amount of
money only if the commas are used every 3 digits.
Example: ￥12345
￥12,345
■Phone number
If numbers are delimited by hyphens "-" or parentheses
"()" as the phone number for the general phone, the
mobile phone or the free dial phone, the FOMA
terminal reads them out as phone numbers but not as
sequences of digits. The FOMA terminal will also read
numbers preceded by "Tel:" as phone numbers.
Example: Tel: 0120-102-... → Teru zeroichinizero
ichizeroni ...
■Time
Numbers separated by a colon ":" are read out as time.
the hour component is a 1- or 2-digit number and the
minute component is a 2-digit number, the number is
read out as time. If "AM" or "PM" is added before or after
the number, it is read out before the number.
"Hour" : "Minute" ("Hour" = 0 to 29: "Minute" = 00 to 59)
Example: 23:15 → "Nijusanji jugofun"
AM "Hour" : "Minute" or "Hour" : "Minute" AM
("Hour" = 0 to 12: "Minute" = 00 to 59)
Example: AM 5:05 → "Gozen goji gofun"
* : The time entered in the format of "Hour" : "Minute" :
"Second" (e.g. 23:15:10) is not read out.
■Date
Numbers separated by a slash (/) or a period (.) in the
pattern for date are read out as date. If "M", "T", "S" or
"H" (upper case) is inserted before a date, the
corresponding (Japanese) era name (Meiji, Taisho,
Showa, Heisei) is read out.
"Year"/"Month"/"Day" or "Year"."Month"."Day"
("Year" = 0 to 9999; "Month" = 1 to 12; "Day" = 1 to 31)
Example:2008/8/1
2008/8/01
2008.8.1
2008.8.01
"H" "Year"/"Month"/"Day" or "H" "Year"."Month"."Day"
("Year" = 0 to 99; "Month" = 1 to 12; "Day" = 1 to 31)
Example: H20.8.1 → "Heisei nijunen hachigatsu
tsuitachi"
The above formats for numbers, amount of money,
phone numbers, time and date are also used for
double-byte characters.
When amount of money, phone numbers, time or date
are read out and the string read out is immediately
"Ichiman nisen sanbyaku
yonjuu goen"
*
If
"Nisenhachinen
hachigatsu tsuitachi"
preceded or followed by any of the characters listed
below, the numbers will not be delimited correctly. If
you want to have the FOMA terminal read out amount
of money, phone numbers, time or date correctly, it is
recommended to use a space as the delimiting
character before and after the string.
"0 to 9", "A to Z (upper case)", ":", "￥", "/", ".", "-"
(double-byte or single-byte)
■Symbol
The FOMA terminal can read out the following
symbols when used with numbers.
$ (dollars)→doru
￥ (yen)→en
℃(degrees) → do
$ (dollars) →doru
(mm)→ miri
(cm) → senchi
(grams)→ guramu
(ares) →aaru
(liters)→rittoru
(calories)→ karorii
(cents)→sento
(millibars) →miribaaru
㎜ (millimeters)→
mirimeetoru
㎞ (kilometers) →
kiromeetoru
㎏ (kilograms) →
kiroguramu
㎡ (square meters)→
heihoumeetoru
■Others
Alphabetic characters are read out in alphabet reading,
but may be read otherwise in certain combinations.
Depending on the content of a sentence or
description (especially geographic names or proper
nouns), the FOMA terminal may not read out the
sentence or may read it out incorrectly.
The voice used to read out is different from natural
voice. The pronunciation or accent may be difficult
to understand in some cases.
The FOMA terminal separates sentences to read
out when there is punctuation marks (periods and
commas), line feeds and spaces, except when a
period (.) or comma (,) is preceded and/or followed
by numbers. When there is no delimiting
punctuation in the text, the sentences are
separated automatically.
Depending on the sentences, it may take time
before the FOMA terminal starts reading out. The
FOMA terminal may read out incorrectly when
there are kanji characters. To ensure that the
content of the mail is read out correctly, it is
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% (percent) →paasento
°(degrees)→do
￥ (yen)→en
％ (percent)→paasento
(kilograms) →kiro
(meters)→meetoru
(tons)→ ton
(hectares) →hekutaaru
(watts) →watto
(dollars)→ doru
(percent)→ paasento
(pages) →peeji
㎝ (centimeters) →
senchimeetoru
㎎ (milligrams) →
miriguramu
㏄ (cc)→ siisii
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