Re: [orca-list] Dictionaries

[Sérgio Neves <sergionevess gmail com>]

Hi,
Thanks for this answer.
I'd like to ask you one more thing, I think it's related to espeak's 
dictionary.
For example: Sometimes, I don't want espeak to say the words "roman six" 
when I write "vi". I prefer to control this pronunciation through a screen 
reader like orca, where I can introduce the words I want.
Is it possible to disable some words on the dictionary, or disable this 
dictionary completely, or what I'm saying doesn't make sense?

Thanks for the good work

Best regards

Sérgio Neves
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Duddington" <jonsd jsd clara co uk>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 11:53 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] ponctuation pronunciation and pauses


On 29 Feb, Sérgio Neves <sergionevess gmail com> wrote:

> I have orca 2.21, espeak 1.31, speech-dispatcher 0.6.6 and ubuntu
> 7.10. 1. When I select speech-dispatcher backend (speech system combo
> box), some ponctuation signs are talked in a different way. For
> example: slash is stroke; backslash is backstroke; instead of saying
> left parenthesis it says lparenthesis or something like that.

These are the names of the punctuation characters which are in eSpeak.

"l-bracket" is changed to "left-bracket" in the next version (1.32)
which I expect to be released in a few days.

You want to change "stroke" and "backstroke" to "slash" and
"backslash"?  That sounds a bit violent.

The "American" voice usually says "slash" and the "British" voice says
"stroke".  But when you are using the "speak punctuation" mode, they
both say "stroke".  This is an error, which I'll fix for version 1.32.

It's possible to change it if you want.

1.  Download the espeak-1.31-source.zip from
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/

2.  Get the directory "dictsource" from that archive.

3.  Edit the file "en_list" in the "dictsource" directory.
Delete the following two lines in the "Character names" section near
the start of the file.

_/    stroUk

_\\   bakstroUk

Without these lines, then the (correct) pronunciations which given at
the end of the en_rules file will be used.

4. Then, using the command-line, inside the "dictsource" directory, do:
  sudo  espeak --compile=en

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