Re: [orca-list] differant speach ingens reading differantly?

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Jarrod:

Different speech engines will have their own pronunciation lexicons, so 
they might pronounce things differently.  Orca has a preferences option 
to allow you to adjust the pronunciation somewhat to you liking though. 
 If you follow the "Pronunciation Page" link from the following URL, 
you will find instructions for doing this:

http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/configuration-gui.html

Will

Jarrod Jicha wrote:
> Hey there everyone.  I am new to the list.  I just started using Ubuntu 
> almost two weeks ago, and I am really liking it so far.  I do have a 
> question though.  As you all know, Ubunto comes with orca, and its 
> default speach ingen is e-speak.  while this speach is ok, when you are 
> reading a file, for example a story, that voice really isn't the 
> gratest.  I managed to get festival installed, and I like the way it 
> reads stories for the most part, however I am running into an issue.  
> when it comes across a word with an apostraphy in it, for example words 
> like i'll hi's i'm we'll, it don't read them right. it reads it like i 
> ll instead of i'll. it sees the apostraphy, but instead of reading it 
> correctly it is as if it sees an apostraphy as a space or something.  
> can anyone recimend a good reading voice that don't do this, or is there 
> a way to fix festival to wair it will read words like this correctly?
>  
> I still have a lot to learn in linux, but I am liking what I am seeing 
> so far.  now if I could just change the SMTP port on my mail client from 
> 25 to 587 I would be even happier.
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