rfc: speakup's character and punctuation processing

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi William,
I am using speakup with both English and Afrikaans, switching between the 
two as required on the fly.

I just, and this is in a very old speakup, cat a customized characters 
table into the characters entry in the speakup parameters directory and it 
works well.

I have looked into translating the prompts and actually has done some of 
them in Afrikaans a while back as the new speakup allows for that.

I also have a synthesizer here that is under development and does not 
support pronunciation of punctuation and here the way speakup allows for 
sending text strings like comma or ampersand came  in quite useful.

As for pronunciation dictionaries, I would think they should stay at the 
synth level.
Kind regards, Willem

 On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, 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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