contacting DecTalk express driver maintainers

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, yes, this is a useful point as well, but sometimes the spelling is a 
good thing to allow so an option could be made to turn it on and off as 
needed or a command line option as the default.  bye
My web page is at http://www.nickgawronski.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John R. Jeavons" <jeavons at covad.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 12:34 AM
Subject: RE: contacting DecTalk express driver maintainers


> Please consider my vote for separating the letters from the numbers 
> (perhaps by simply inserting a space into the output string), speaking any 
> which can be treated as words as such (which would then presumably become 
> the default behavior), and reading the numbers however whatever options 
> available for digit-by-digit or full number verbalization are set.
> JJ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Kirk Reiser
> Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 3:55 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: contacting dectalk express driver maintainers
>
>
> I appreciate that there are probably some problems with the dectalk
> express driver.  Unfortunately, I do not have a dectalk express or any
> other dectalk for that matter to do testing with.  The capitalization
> fix is probably not to difficult and may be fixable without one to
> test with.  The mixed numbers and partial words on the other hand is
> one of those problems where everybody has their own idea how it should
> work and would be very difficult to test without a unit to play with.
> The default dectalk behaviour as I'm sure you all know is to spell all
> words attached to numbers which is not what most dectalk users want.
> So I suspect in addition to working on the problem you all should
> discuss what type of behaviour you would prefer and then maybe I can
> put something together for someone to test with.  It'll be slow but
> without a unit that's the best I can do.
>
>  Kirk
>
> -- 
>
> Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility
> e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario
> phone: (519) 661-3061
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