rfc: speakup's character and punctuation processing

[Gaijin]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 04:23:19PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> 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?

	I'm all for letting the hardware do it's job, where possible, 
and saving those CPU cycles for actual work.

				Michael