speakupconf and software speech

Kenny Hitt kenny at hittsjunk.net
Sat Jan 22 00:20:52 EST 2005


Hi.  Thanks.  The problem seems that the caps_start and caps_stop have
quotes added to  the actual string.  I loolked at the speakupconf script,
but I can't see how the quotes get added.

          Kenny
	  
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:09:29AM -0600, Thomas Stivers wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:59:02 AM -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> > Hi.  I recently started using speakupconf and noticed a strange problem
> > with software speech.
> > When I do "speakupconf load" with software speech I here quote spoken
> > during a capital letter.  
> > For example: if U press a capital a, I hear speakup say "quote a quote".
> > Has anyone else noticed this problem?  If so, what was your solution?
> 
> I had this problem at one time and was able to fix it by changing the
> contents of /etc/speakup/softsynth/caps_start and
> /etc/speakup/softsynth/caps_stop. I don't recall what it was set to
> before, but now they are set to \x01+3p and \x01-3p respectively which
> seems to work pretty well.
> 
> HTH
> 
> -- 
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> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
> by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
> 
> Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
> 
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