rfc: speakup's character and punctuation processing

[William Hubbs]

Hi Steve,

On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 11:23:44PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> 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.

The capitalization processing is not handled by any synthesizers that I
know of other than espeak, so that is not going to be changed in
speakup.

William