rfc: speakup's character and punctuation processing

[William Hubbs]

Hi Tyler,

well, another thing that is happening is the thread that is going on on
the list about the speakup punctuation level and the reading punctuation
level.  These are controled by speakup's internal punctuation
processing, and have nothing to do with the way the synthesizer handles
punctuation.

The issue is that a user can control both the synthesizer punctuation
and the speakup punctuation levels and they are not related to each
other at all.  IMHO this is confusing, and we should just have the synth
handle punctuation.

William

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 03:25:34PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
> Why not an option that would allow for speakup to handle punctuation or to bypass the speakup punctuation and pass it off to the synth for processing?
> 
> 		Thanks,
> Tyler Littlefield
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> 
> On Apr 25, 2010, at 3:23 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> 
> > All,
> > 
> > speakup does a number of things to have all of the characters and
> > punctuation marks pronounced the same way for all of the synthesizers it
> > supports instead of allowing the synthesizers to process them.
> > 
> > The disadvantage of this is primarily obvious for internationalization.
> > We are forcing English pronunciations instead of allowing the
> > synthesizer to pronounce things in the correct language.
> > 
> > For the softsynth, there is a direct option, which  passes things
> > straight to the synthesizer.  I am wondering though if we should  just
> > get rid of all of the character and punctuation processing that is part
> > of speakup and allow the synthesizer to handle this?
> > 
> > This is just an idea right now.  I am not planning on doing this without
> > discussion; I am wondering at this point what others think.
> > 
> > So, your input is welcome.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > William
> > 
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