rfc: speakup's character and punctuation processing

[Alex H.]

Hi,

I think there should be an option just to toggel "controlled by synth'
or 'controlled by speakup', there are advantages to both.

Alex

On 4/25/10, William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> an exception dictionary would be a good idea, but I'm thinking that we
> should put that at the synthesizer level.  AFAIK, this is supported by
> the hardware synths right?
>
> William
>
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 02:31:13PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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>> I'd say to just let the synthesizer deal with pronunciation, though
>> the best of both worlds would be to allow the user to switch among
>> both options, perhaps by loading a pronunciation dictionary to
>> somewhere under /sys/accessibility/speakup, as is done with chartab
>> and friends now.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 04:23:19PM -0500, 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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