speakup and programming code

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Right. No solution is perfect, but this one gets a lot of
mileage.

On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> Grate sugestion, but it wouldn't work for everything. For example, something like "printf" begines with a lowercase p, and ends with a lowercase f, which would mean that it wouldn't get broken up if I understand your implementation of it.
> Greg
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 07:25:28AM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> > Recent posts by Thomas Ward and others have prompted this
> > suggestion for a speakup feature that might greatly facilitate
> > things for people who deal with program code such as C or C++,
> > and might make exception dictionaries less critical to implement.
> >
> > Many times the mixture of capitalization within an alphabetic
> > string is unusual in program code, and of course it is important.
> > I first ran across this many years ago with the name of the
> > popular data base package "d base ii". Now what you should have
> > heard inside the quotes is what everyone says when they pronounce
> > it, but "d base" is actually written "dBASE", and I defy you to
> > hear that correctly without spelling it out character by
> > character.
> >
> > Here is my suggestion: When speakup is sending a series of
> > letters to the synth and notices that (1) the current char is
> > upper case, and (2) the last char sent was lower case, then (3)
> > before sending the current char it should send whatever is needed
> > to break the current string into two parts. Maybe that would be a
> > CR, or a space, or some unspoken control char, or whatever. The
> > result would be "d base" instead of "dBASE", and C programmers
> > will recognize immediately that there will be zillions of similar
> > funny case mixtures that will be spoken more correctly if the
> > transition from lower to upper case within a string is broken up
> > with a neutral unspoken element that serves only to cause the
> > synth to pronounce what it has already received and treat the
> > following as a new word.
> >
> > This would perhaps be an inexpensive speakup modification that
> > would dramatically improve its performance for some of us.
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> >
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