Verbosity

MathPlayer currently supports the notion of verbosity. This is an option a user can set in the MathPlayer control panel. There five levels verbosity, with three of them named: ::v_full, v_medium, and v_terse. These are integer valued variables and are usually compared to the global variable "::verbosity" when generating speech.

When someone is just learning a subject, one often uses longer phrases to make it more understandable. However, over time, we often shorten the phrases and even elide words so that we can more quickly communicate ideas/problems. For example, when we are first learning about variables, "y = 2x" might be spoken as "y is equal to 2 times x". Soon however, this will get shortened to "y equals 2 times x" and eventually will be spoken as "y equals 2 x".

Verbosity is a relatively new feature in MathPlayer and we are still experimenting with it. Feel free to remove verbosity tests if they don't make sense for your language. Simiarly, you can add them if you feel that they would be useful in cases they are not currently part of the rule.