rfc: speakup's character and punctuation processing

[Tyler Littlefield]

I see what your saying, I just thought that allowing the user to control whether or not speakup did the processing was a sort of fix for all. I'm not even sure that would help/solve the problem, was just a suggestion.
		Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
	http://tds-solutions.net
	Twitter: sorressean

On Apr 25, 2010, at 4:14 PM, William Hubbs wrote:

> 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
>> 	http://tds-solutions.net
>> 	Twitter: sorressean
>> 
>> 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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