reading dates

[mrsi...@sasktel.net]

Hi list, this morning I was leaving the house to do some business.

 

I had a printed invoice from a medicaloffice to take to blue cross for a refund.

 

I put on the glasses and put them in reading mode to make sure I had the correct document

 

 

When it got to the date it said;

 

“September 1, 2026.

 

Of course, this is impossible.

 

I read the same document on my win11 pc using nvda and  the zira voice from micro soft one core voices.

 

It read the date as;

 

“09 slash 01 slash 2026”

 

Which I interpret as January  9^th 2026.

 

Because I remember that being the right time of year.

 

Is there a problem with different speechengines interpreting the date differently?

 

Thanks,

 

 

Monte Single

 

[Robert Warren]

9/1/2026 is interpreted as September 1, 2026 in the US and January 9, 2026 in Europe.

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[mrsi...@sasktel.net]

I am in Canada.

 

Monte Single

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[Robert Warren]

Canada likely follows the European interpretation of turmeric dates.

Perhaps the glasses could understand your home country and interpret the date correctly based on that.

Seems like a minor point

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On Aug 6, 2026, at 5:26 PM, mrsingle via EchoVision Community Forum <echovisio...@agiga.ai> wrote:



[mrsi...@sasktel.net]

No, it is not a minor point when you are checkinga document  and echo says it is dated for next month.

That is not minor at all.

 

I would be  a fool to go to claim a refund for a receipt that was dated for next month.

[patrick....@gmail.com]

In the commonly used date format in the US the month comes first, then the day, then the year, not the day first, then the month, then the year that is common elsewhere. So, the glasses were correct in reading 09/01/2026 as September 1, 2026 since they use the US format.

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[Sieghard Weitzel]

Monty,

 

If the date says 09/01/2026 then here in Canada and in the US this typically means September 1, 2026. However, in Germany and I assume other European countries, the date format is not MM/DD/YYYY or in other words month/day/year, but it is DD/MM/YYYY. If you write out the date of August 5, 2026, you would write 5. August, 2026 or 05/08/2026

If the date was in fact formatted as 09/01/2026 then I would expect the EchoVision glasses to follow the North American standard and read it as September 1, 2026 which they apparently did. Obviously if that is how it was written and that invoice was from January 9, 2026 then your doctor's office or whoever issued the invoice is following the other date format and that is not the fault of the glasses.