daisy reader for gnu/linux, listen-up!

[Luke Davis]

On DECTalks (ha ha, he said gloating), you don't get any absurd "list en
up"--you get "listen up".

The dash just doesn't seem right, and really doesn't, if it's in there for
that reason.  There's a defacto standard on speakup, which specifies no
dashes.  I say we keep it!

Down with the dash!
Down with the dash!
:)


On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Steve Holmes wrote:

> Well, it's all sysnthesiser dependent as my speakout says it correctly
> without the dash in there.  So I suppose the - will force proper
> pronunciation in all speech cases.  Hey, just knock the punctuation
> level down to #2 and read a line at a time and listen-up will actually
> sound like listen up:).
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:38:38PM -0400, Ann Parsons wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Well, Janina, only problem with  "listenup" is that instead of hearing
> > "lissenup", I hear "list-ten-up".  Now iffin you're a language lover
> > like me, and you know that list, is an old form of listen, that's
> > fine.  But speech synthes will say it wrong every time unless we spell
> > it "lissenup".  It might be sorta cute to spell it that way.  It's up
> > to you folks.  But "lis ten up" doesn't have the same impact.
> >
> > Ann P.
>