Re: [orca-list] Capital, Capital, Capital

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Thanks Jonathan!

Do you know if there was a change in eSpeak to make it default to 
verbalized capitalizations?  I might be tired and reading the messages 
on the orca-list incorrectly, but it appears as though we're getting 
reports from gnome-speech/espeak users that verbalized caps are happening.

Will

Jonathan Duddington wrote:
> On 17 Mar, Peter Vágner <peter v datagate sk> wrote:
>
> > I think we need to be able to tell espeak not to say capital when
> > user wishes so.
>
> If speech-dispatcher passes to eSpeak the text:
>   <say-as interpret-as="tts:char">B</say-as>
>
> or makes the equivalent call:
>   espeak_Char('B');
>
> The eSpeak will say the name of the character, which is "Capital B" (or
> the equivalent in the current language).
>
> If you want to prevent the "Capital", then simply convert the character
> to lower case before passing it to eSpeak:
>   letter = towlower(letter);
>
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