speakup direct mode

[William Hubbs]

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All,

this is an update to let you know I found an issue with my previous
commit.  If you did a git pull after the below message was sent, please
do a pull as of now to get the fix.

Thanks,

William

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 07:43:11PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have added a feature to speakup in git which will allow characters to
> be directly sent to a synthesizer without using speakup's built in
> character pronunciations.
> 
> The feature is controled by the "direct" pseudo file in
> /sys/module/speakup/parameters.
> 
> Currently this is only supported by the softsynth and is off by default.
> 
> If you would like to enable this feature, issue this command when the
> softsynth is active.
> 
> echo 1 > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/direct
> 
> The goal, after more testing, will be to make it default to on for the
> softsynth and add support for it, defaulted to off, for all of the other
> drivers.
> 
> The reason for this feature is that it will allow better support for
> foreign languages, in particular, since software synthesizers like
> espeak already support them.
> 
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