Re: [orca-list] Question about Unicode and languages in UBuntu

[Tomas Cerha <cerha brailcom org>]

Jonathan Duddington wrote:
> eSpeak should always say something for any character if it's asked to
> speak the "name" of the character.  This feature should be used by a
> screen-reader program when speaking character names, character by
> character.

Hello,

The problem might be, that Gnome Speech never uses this function of a
synthesizer.  Character names are substituted by Orca and spoken as
regular text.

> When speaking text, eSpeak should say something for all alphabetic
> characters, but unknown non-alphabetic characters (such as unknown
> symbols) are ignored.

Yes, and because characters are spoken as text, they are ignored.

The Speech Dispatcher backend should not have this problem.  Characters
are passed to the synthesizer without transformation leaving the
synthesizer a chance to pronounce them correctly in current language
context.

See http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SpeechDispatcher

Best regards, Tomas