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

[Kenny Hitt <kenny hittsjunk net>]

Hi.  Please don't do this.  I would only ask that espeak say "cap" instead of "capital".  I'm one of those 
few users
who has never liked pitch change for capitals.  Until recently, I was stuck with this, I was really glad when 
speech-dispatcher started saying capital instead of
just changing the pitch.

          Kenny
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:38:42PM +0100, Tomas Cerha wrote:
> Willie Walker wrote:
> > So, this might indeed be happening somewhere between the speakCharacter 
> > support in the Orca speechdispatcher.py module and the speech dispatcher 
> > support.  I'm not really sure, and we probably could use Tomas' help 
> > chasing this down.
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> a quick fix might be lowering the case of the character in Orca SD
> backend before sending it to Speech Dispatcher.  It will disable
> synthesizer controlled capital verbalization, but this is probably not a
> serious limitation for now, since Orca controlled pitch signalization
> seems to be prefered.  I'm not aware of other problems this might cause.
>  A better solution may be found later, but it should help for now.
>
> Something like:
>    self._send_command(self._client.char, character.lower())
> instead of:
>    self._send_command(self._client.char, character)
> in the speakCharacter() method of speechdispatcherfactory.py should do
> the trick.
>
> Unfortunately I will have very limited chances to get to sending a patch
> this week, so if anyone wants to give it a try, he is welcome.
>
> Thanks everyone for reporting the problem.
>
> Best regards, Tomas.
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