Annotations

An annotation has the same function as a tag:  it is a special code which you can place in the input text to customize the output.  Most annotations have equivalent tags.

Why Annotations?

The tags used in this program are part of an industry-wide standard known as "SAPI" (Speech Application Programmers Interface), which is common to all text-to-speech programs.
However, ETI-Eloquence also has its own version of tags, called "annotations."  Annotations predate SAPI tags, and many users have already built systems that depend solely on annotations.  For this reason, we cannot simply replace annotations with tags.  
Annotations have a different form than tags, but perform the same functions.  The tags are really just a layer of commands over this underlying system of annotations.  Each tag is converted to an annotation "behind the scenes." 

Use of Annotations

	Annotations must be used in place of tags within the translation of a Special Words Dictionary entry.  For example, you might use the annotation equivalent of the emphasis tag to mark a phrase as having the stress of a compound word.
	If you wish to use an annotation elsewhere (outside the Special Words Dictionary), you must enclose the annotation within the Engine specific (Eng) tag.

	For a complete listing of the annotations and their tag equivalents, see the Table of Tags.

Form:

An annotation consists of a ` (backquote) followed immediately by a string of characters.  For example: 

`vs5	Use speaking rate 5.
`4	Put very heavy emphasis (level 4) on the following word.
`ts2	Pronounce all characters individually by name.
A phrase-final intonation annotation must be followed immediately by a punctuation mark. 
All other annotations must be followed either by punctuation or white space.



