rfc: speakup's character and punctuation processing

[Steve Holmes]

After going through 19 messages on this thread, I tend to lean towards
keeping the processing in Speakup.  I need to point out something I
haven't heard even mentioned yet and that is with Capitalization.  The
theory behind speech dispatcher has always been for the synth to
control all punctuation and capitalization - fine.  But when you do
that and use speech dispatcher with espeak, you always get stuck with
that god-awful speaking of "Capital" before every capital letter.
Where Speakup and Orca's old gnome-speech services module can adjust
for pitch to indicate capitalization.  I know espeak supports pitch
change for upper case letters but I don't think the speech dispatcher
module for espeak does; I think that's the problem   Like I say,
speakup's current logic gets around what I feel to be a big problem.