About Standard Phrases

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	About Standard Phrases

Standard phrases are included with Dialog Designer as part of the language phrase bundles purchased. They are not, however, installed automatically. If you want to use them, you must first install them.

Note:

Although there is nothing to prevent this, standard phrases are not intended for general use in an application. Their primary intended use is to be associated with the localization bundle and audio variables. If they are used and the localization bundle is later altered, unexpected results may be encountered.

Standard phrases consist of common types of phrases used in prompts. They include numbers in various formats, currency words, names of months and days of the week, years, and similar words and phrases.

Standard phrases are easily identified in the Navigator view because the names of standard phrase audio files start with the characters std_.

Note:

Since Dialog Designer uses the std_ prefix to distinguish standard phrases, do not use the std_ prefix when naming custom phrase files.

For information about installing standard phrases, see Using a Localization Bundle's Standard Phrasesets.

Note:

Standard phrases were converted into a phraseset with Dialog Designer 3.1.