Redefining a character pronunciation

[Steve Holmes]

That might be more easily accomplished by altering the speech
dictionaries used by espeak.  Not sure exactly what files those would
be as I'm on a windows machine here at work now and don't have access
to my linux boxes at the moment to look further but I think the synth
would be easer to reassign rather than messing with Speakup; just a
thought.

On 4/15/13, pj at pjb.com.au <pj at pjb.com.au> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'd like to have # pronounced as "hash", or even as "comment",
> instead of as "number"; but when I edit
>   $ cd /sys/accessibility/speakup/i18n/
>   $ vi characters
> even as root, I get:
>   "/sys/accessibility/speakup/i18n/characters" E667: Fsync failed
>
> followed by lots of scary kernel messages like:
> Apr 16 14:50:50 box8 kernel: [  977.007098]  updated 18 of 20 character
> descriptions with 2 rejects
> Apr 16 14:50:50 box8 kernel: [  977.007114] character descriptions reset to
> defaults
>
> even though file identifies it as a text file, and it's world-writeable:
>   $ file characters
>   characters: ASCII C program text
>   $ ls -l characters
>   -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 4096 Apr 16 14:50 characters
>
> Is there a way for me to get "#" pronounced as "hash" ?
>
> and preferably configurable during run-time,
> since mostly I might be editing a perl script,
> but sometimes a form full of account numbers and membership numbers ?
>
> Regards,  Peter Billam
>
> http://www.pjb.com.au      pj at pjb.com.au     (03) 6278 9410
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>  from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949
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