espeak and the letter z

[Chris Brannon]

Chuck Hallenbeck writes:
> the letter z now rhymes with say, or day, or gay, or pay, etc. It still
> says zed when reading by line or by word, but when reading by character

Chuck,
It says zaid, which rhymes with paid.  Listen closely, and you'll hear
the final d.
Anyway, here's a description of the problem and the fix.
When you type z or read z with the speakup cursor, speakup sends the
text zehd to espeakup.
espeak renders zehd as zaid.
The fix is trivial.
echo '90 zed' > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/characters
echo '122 zed' > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/characters

-- Chris