Re: [orca-list] Pronunciation dictionary is not working

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

On 08.03.2009 at 22:08:47 Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM> wrote:

> The pronunciation dictionary is for words, whereas what you're trying
> to do is create pronunciation for non-alphabetic characters such as
> punctuation characters.  These characters are used for delineating
> words, so they won't be passed to the pronunciation dictionary.
>
> When you are arrowing around, Orca will use the sayCharacter function
> to speak the character, and this will ultimately use the chnames.py
> dictionary if you are using gnome-speech (speechdispatcher has a
> different philosophy/means for speaking characters, so Orca relies
> upon speechdispatcher to do the right thing).
I tried this indeed with Gnome-Speech.

> If you want to change the spoken word for a character, and you are
> using gnome-speech, you might try something like this:
>
> import orca.chnames
> orca.chnames.chnames['"', 'zitat']
> orca.chnames.chnames['<', 'kleiner']
> orca.chnames.chnames['>', 'groesser']
Thank you.
Is there an alternative to writing this manually, e.g . can this be
implemented into Orca's settings dialogue?
And what to do with  my former entries, delete them?
Hermann