rfc: speakup's character and punctuation processing

[Gregory Nowak]

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Hi William and all.

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 05:17:40PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> 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?

Yes, but when I made the suggestion, I had ease of use in mind. As
heart pointed out, not everyone is going to know how to use the
pronunciation dictionary in their synth, unless they read, and
understand the synth manual. Whereas if this is done with speakup,
then setting up a pronunciation dictionary would be the same, no
matter the synth being used. You do have a good point though, relying
on the synth's own pronunciation dictionary would make things less tricky, as far as
speakup development goes.

To address something else Chris pointed out, yes, not hearing space be
pronounced when you read the screen character by character would be
annoying, to me at least. You could set the synth's punctuation to
full/total when the screen review keys to read char by char are being used, but that would
open a whole new can of worms.

Greg


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