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

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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Well in that regard, maybe we could just go into espeak's dictionaries
or speech lexicons and change the pronunciations from capital to cap.
That shouldn't be too hard to do.  I was thinking of taking a trip in
there some day anyhow for other purposes.  I'm just not used to
editting phonemes just yet.

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 02:25:11PM +0100, Dorado MartÃnez, Francisco Javier wrote:
> Hi all 
>
> I prefer to use higher tone for capitalization, however with some TTS this is not possible.
> I remember when I was using Festival TTS, this did not work.
>
> Would be very nice if this TTS could speak e.g. "b cap" "c cap" etc when reading by character.
> This would be a configurable setting in the Orca's speech preferences.
>
> Regards
>
> Javier
>
>
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> De: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] En nombre de Steve Holmes
> Enviado el: martes, 18 de marzo de 2008 13:37
> Para: orca-list gnome org
> Asunto: Re: [orca-list] Capital, Capital, Capital
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> I just checked my speech-dispatcher config and the DefaultCapitalRecognition is set to None and I am using 
> the direct espeak module.  Since espeak doesn't support audio icons, it would appear that the only other 
> way of identifying capital letters is verbalizing them.  It would be nice to add a pitch change component 
> to this set of choices.  I don't suppose there is any other way to get audio icons to play with speech 
> dispatcher if the synth doesn't directly support them is there?
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:25:53PM +0100, Tomas Cerha wrote:
> > Bohdan R. Rau wrote:
> > > 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 'Ã' in Polish :)
> >
> > Thanks everyone for the feedback.  I would like to ask those who hear 
> > the unwanted "capital" announcements to check whether they have the 
> > option DefaultCapLetRecognition in their Speech Dispatcher 
> > configuration set to "none" (should be the default).  If that's the 
> > case, I suspect the problem might be in the Speech Dispatcher's espeak 
> > module, since I believe this setting should be honoured and if it is 
> > not, it may be a bug.  I emphasize I am currently unable to check the 
> > code and track the problem down myself so these are all just my 
> > guesses...
> >
> > Also if anyone wants to play around with this option and various 
> > synthesizers, it might give us some important information.
> >
> > > May be option like 'pass all characters directly to synthesizer'?
> >
> > Yes, this is what the bug 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440114 proposes.  Please 
> > comment on the bug if you have anything to add (or just want to 
> > express your interest in having this feature).
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Yes, this is one of the major concerns which Speech Dispatcher tries 
> > to address and this is also one more reason for having a chance to 
> > bypass Orca's own verbalization.
> >
> > Best regards, Tomas _______________________________________________
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