Not speaking number before letter "bug"?

[Trevor Astrope]

Fwiw, I am using a 2.0 version of speakup at work with a DEC Express and 
it says the numbers and letters, although it tries to speak it as a word. 
I.E. 1s is pronounced ones and 2s is pronounced like twos.

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, luke wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Tony Baechler wrote:
>
>> luke wrote:
>>> Earlier today I wrote:
>>>
>>> "If it's on the right, replace the 1s with 2s."
>>>
>>> There is a digit one before the first "s" and a two before the second.
>>> However, my current speakup reads this line as:
>>>
>>> "If it's on the right, replace the s with s."
>>>
>>> If I place the speakup cursor on the "1s" and hit "read word", I get "s".
>>> If I hit read word twice (I.E. spell word), it will then say "1 s".
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> This is a DEC-Talk Express bug. Good luck fixing it, I've been trying for
>> years.
>
> The thing that is driving me crazy the most, is that I *did* fix this,
> over a year ago.  For some reason which I will never understand, I didn't
> promote the fix to my speakup initialization and configuration script,
> where I do all of my other rate, pitch, character, etc. setup.
>
> I so rarely reboot my home system, that it's been about that long since I
> had to perform the fix, and the last time, about 8 months ago before last
> week, I apparently still remembered how to do it.
>
> I'm going to have to spend some time playing with this, and if I can get
> it fixed again, I'll figure out a way to get it included in source for
> the DEC Express driver or something.
>
> Luke
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