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

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

Hi,
Changing the pitch is prefered where possible.
Lowering the case should not be even thought of as a work-around as case 
can be very important.
A click before a capital letter can rather be used IMHO.
Regards, Willem


On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Bohdan R. Rau wrote:

> Dnia 2008-03-17, pon o godzinie 23:38 +0100, Tomas Cerha pisze:
> [...]
> > 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.
>
> It is especially usable with synthesizers which does not support pitch
> change (like Ivona) ;)
>
> >   I'm not aware of other problems this might cause.
> >  A better solution may be found later, but it should help for now.
>
> I think the best solution would be to leave decision to user. Not only
> for capitals, but also for accented letters. My eSpeak knows better how
> to pronounce '?' or 'ó' in Polish :)
>
> May be option like 'pass all characters directly to synthesizer'?
>
> You must remember: eSpeak is not only synthesizer used with Orca, and
> Orca is not only application using speech. If I have Orca, Yasr and some
> self-made application using libspeechd, I expect same pronunciation in
> all.
>
> BTW. Jonathan, very good idea (espeakCAPITALS) but add the option "do
> nothing"...
>
> Bohdan
>
>
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