Re: [orca-list] ponctuation pronunciation and pauses

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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That's a handy resource.  However, I think I would rather do it at the
synth level.  I observe similar problems with some of these
pronunciations when using speechd-el and full punctuation mode with
espeak.  But it is a handy thing to do with Orca in a pinch.

I'll save this in my notes folder; I save previous messages to the
list when they have some referencial value.

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:21:34AM -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hey Steve:
>
> I just added a new FAQ entry for this.  :-)  In short, here's and 
> example you can add to your ~/.orca/orca-customizations.py file:
>
> import orca.chnames
> orca.chnames.chnames["'"] = "tick"
> orca.chnames.chnames['"'] = "quote"
> orca.chnames.chnames["!"] = "bang"
>
> The FAQ can be found here:
>
> http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Will
>
> On Mar 30, 2008, at 12:40 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > I don't know the final choice but as long as it may be easy to change
> > those pronunciations, just document clearly how one should do it.  Be
> > careful there; someone suggested changing quote to apostrophe. How
> > wrong! this mark (") is a full quote or double quote.  Where (') is an
> > apostrophe or single quote mark.  In speakup, it is pronounced as
> > 'tick'. I like tick because it is one syllable.  I also am more used
> > to slash than stroke.  Oh, I would switch Prime for Tick.
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 09:30:33AM +0000, Jonathan Duddington wrote:
> > > On 29 Mar, Jon <j orcauser googlemail com> wrote:
> > > > 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
> > >
> > > There will always be disagreement about names of punctuation
> > > characters.  Is there a consensus?
> > >
> > > For example, for "/" some people prefer "stroke" and some prefer
> > > "slash".
> > >
> > > "quote" is shorter than "apostrophe", 1 syllable rather than 4.  Some
> > > people may prefer "tick".
> > >
> > > For "`" other alternatives are "left-quote" or "back-quote".
> > >
> > > > using sd+espeak
> > >
> > > > when pressing " double quote is spoken, but if deleted quotes is
> > > > spoken. is this sd's fault?
> > >
> > > Perhaps "double quote" is Orca's name for it?
> > >
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