Re: [orca-list] Question about Unicode and languages in UBuntu

[Jonathan Duddington <jonsd jsd clara co uk>]

On 02 Feb, Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM> wrote:

> > Recent versions of eSpeak should do this, although it says the
> > unicode value as hexadecimal rather than decimal.

> Nice!  Is this something that requires an API call other than 
> espeak_Synth or a special parameter to be passed to espeak_Synth?

espeak_Char() speaks the "name" of a character.

You should use this when you are announcing characters one-by-one (eg.
echo characters which are being typed, or spelling text
character-by-character).

espeak_Synth() is for speaking text as words.  In this mode, eSpeak
should say something for any alphabetic character.