Bug with Speakup and Dectalk

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

A lot of those peculiarities are the result of the TTS algorithm built
into the particular hardware device in question, and/or the hardware
device's own punctuation setting, not the speakup punctuation setting.
Most of the peculiarities mentioned are just not a problem on this
Doubletalk LT synth. Speakup just passes strings along to the synth, and
it is the synth that has the algorithm that turns those strings into the
phonemes that make the speech. Of course speakup could try to outsmart
those algorithms, but it is important to locate where the strangeness
originates before attempting fixes.


On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Hart Larry wrote:

> Well, Kirk-and-All, the appostrafee has never worked correctly in processing 
> words in the 11 months I've been running Linux.
> Some other outstanding concerns, if numbers-and-letters are mixed, they are 
> spelled, so if I were to write speakup4you my decpc will say s p e a k u p 
> 4u. Also, and this may be a dectalkism but if there are 2 consecutive 
> punctuations after a word, I think it also spells it out?
> While reading with l y n x  if I use a tab key, it will sometimes read the 
> sameword many times over-and-over-and-over.
> Also, if there are 2 consecutive dashes  it says semi :
> I didn't notice many of these items useing dectalk with Vocal-eyes or Jaws. 
> Thanks
> Hart
>
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