Re: [orca-list] ponctuation pronunciation and pauses

[Jon <j orcauser googlemail com>]

Jonathan, what do you think about changing:

` currently spoken as back prime to backtick or graave
' currently spoken as quote maybe should be apostrophe
" currently spoken as quotes

using sd+espeak
when pressing " double quote is spoken, but if deleted quotes is spoken.
is this sd's fault?

(using default espeak english voice)

Thanks

-Jon
On Fri 29/02/2008 at 23:53:41, Jonathan Duddington wrote:
> On 29 Feb, S?rgio 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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