Re: [orca-list] Getting Rid of the Capitals

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

am Mi 09. Apr 2008 um 15:43:35 schrieb Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>:
> I know we had a long talk on the list a while back concerning the
> capitals every time you read a single character that is upper case
> while using the review keys.  What I can't remember if there is any
> way to change this annoying behavior.  I would just soon have it do a
> pitch change like it does when you arrow over the same letters in a
> text buffer with the normal arrow keys.  I'm using speech dispatcher
> with espeak and at the moment, capitalization is set to "None" in
> speechd.conf.  

I have both in Orca and SD.

> I experimented with the pitch rise option in the espeak
> module config for dispatcher but that didn't correct the problem
> either.  It did cause a different pattern which I backed off from; it
> raised the pitch of capitalized words but that isn't quite what I'm
> after here.  

That's due to the behavior of SD, ruled in the espeak.conf file. I don't 
like this too, since we have different rules for capital spelling in 
Germany: We have more word written with capital letters, so you hear a 
true audiocomic while reading :-(

> From what I see so far, it sounds like the speech
> dispatcher backend is doing this capital verbalization.  Am I right?

I think there are two problems: The higher pitch comes from SD, but the 
announcement "capital" seems to be implemented in Espeak. Which version of 
Espeak do you use?

> If I have to, I could get in and hack the program to do otherwise.
>
> One thing I know for sure, with speech dispatcher set to "None", it
> couldn't be dispatcher that is saying "Capital" every time I read a
> capital letter.
 
Do you hear "capital" when have set SD so? If so, it must come from Espeak.
Hermann