contacting dectalk express driver maintainers

[Joseph C. Lininger]

While we are talking about the dec express, I have noticed a bug as
well. I have brought this up before, but have not really had a
suggestion as to how to fix it. Allow me to try again, this time adding
a potential fix. If you have numbers and letters mixed together, the
synth will sometimes pronounce only the letters. For example 3com (the
number 3, followed by com) gets pronounced as just com (no number
three). This only happens when I use speakup as far as I can see.

To fix it, what I propose is that if a number appears, followed
immediately by letters, Speakup should send a space to the synth before
sending the letters. So for example, for 3com, the driver would send "3
com" which would cause it to be pronounced right. This would work
regardless of where the letters and numbers appeared in the string, just
add a space where ever there are numbers followed immediately by
letters. That seems to be the only case that causes the problem.

--
It's not one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and
over. (History repeats itself)
Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net
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And so it came to pass that on Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Nick Gawronski said

> Hi, I am trying to report some bugs in the dectalk express driver,
when I
> type a capital leter the voice rases in pitch as it should but then
after
> this the pitch drops down lower then it was before I typed the capital
leter.
> I either have to turn off and back on or just reset the pitch via
speakup.
> Also, it would be useful if things like rate and pitch and voice could
be
> command line options like the serial port and synthisizer are to
speakup or
> modules.  Is this the best place on reporting these kind of bugs? I
know it
> is not the dectalk unit itself as I also use windows xp professional
service
> pack 2 with window eyes and don't have this problem. Also, Does the
new
> dectalk usb work on usb mode or just in serial mode with speakup?  bye
> My web page is at http://www.nickgawronski.com
>
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