espeak and the letter z

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Steve,

I renamed lenny to squeeze in my sources.list, so I stayed with testing
when lenny was promoted to stable. There won't be very many updates for
lenny, mainly security fixes. 

Chuck


On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 01:18:36AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> Thanks, I'll have to watch for this when espeak gets upgraded on my
> box.  This brings me to my next question.  I'm running Debian Lenny
> and have done so for several months.  I don't see any new packages
> coming in since the formal production release of Lenny on Feb 14th.
> So how are people with Lenny getting these newer releases? I thought
> you had to go Unstable to get these.  Is that what you did?  My
> /etc/sources still shows Lenny Main, pretty much like what was set up
> when I installed back in October of '08.  Thanks for the Debian help
> here.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:36:19PM -0600, Chris Brannon wrote:
> > 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
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