Re: [orca-list] Verbalized punctuation (was Re: more than one blank space arenot recognizedin thunderbird)

["David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>]

Hi, Will,

> The verbalized punctuation in Orca comes in after Orca has built up the 
> string to send to the synthesis engine.  Thus, if Orca inserts a '.' when 
> building up a string, it will be verbalized if the user has requested the 
> relevant punctuation level.
>
> Orca adds the '.' character to help with the prosody/pacing of spoken 
> output as well as the fundamental pitch contour.  In this cycle, we added 
> the '.' character to the end of mnemonics because we had a complaint: 
> without it, the pitch of the character being spoken was incorrect and 
> causing confusion.

I'm not sure that this is causing the problem. This issue has been around 
for a while, and I notice it most when using period, exclamation, and 
question marks. So, if you put in two spaces following one of these 
punctuation characters, you hear the preceding punctuation character spoken 
twice, such as "period period", "exclamation exclamation" or "question 
question". I don't see how that is related to adding a following apostrophe 
to the string.

I can't generate a debug log at the moment (the machine where I'm currently 
working has gnome 2.16 and Orca 1.0), but I'll try to generate one tonight 
on my laptop (gnome 2.26 and Orca from git before the last flag day).  I'll 
file a bug and add the debug log to it.

Thanks,

dave