[orca-list] Fw: Pronunciation issue with ibmtts

["Olivier BERT" <olivier bert terramitica net>]

Hi,

I am forwarding this message I posted a few days ago on the 
speech-dispatcher mailing list.
I'm currently looking for a way to replace certain characters that orca 
sends to the speech engine in order to avoid some pronunciation issues when 
using such an environment on a French system.

Please read the message below and if you have an idea of how we could solve 
the issue, you are welcome.

Regards,

Olivier
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olivier BERT" <olivier bert terramitica net>
To: <speechd lists freebsoft org>
Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 1:00 PM
Subject: Pronunciation issue with ibmtts


> Hello all,
>
> I'm experiencing a small issue while using ibmtts with speech diispatcher.
> It is not specific to the use of Speech Dispatcher, but I think it will 
> never
> be fixed in the ibmtts engine itself.
>
> In french, some punctuation characters are preceded by a 'non-break space'
> character (0xc2 0xa0 in utf-8). When Speech Dispatcher processes a text
> string for ibmtts, it converts it from utf-8 to cp1252 (I think) because
> ibmtts doesn't understand utf-8. After this conversion step, non-break
> spaces are replaced with the code 0xa0. I finally come to the problem:
> when ibmtts encounters a word followed by this character (0xa0), it spells
> this word instead of pronuncing it normally.
>
> I'm currently looking for a way to solve this issue in a clean way.
> Is there a way to replace every non-break space by normal space in the
> Speech Dispatcher code ?
>
> I mainly use speech-dispatcher with orca and I've tried to fix the problem
> by adding an entry in the orca's pronunciation dictionary. But, as the
> non-break space is considered to be a space by Orca, it doesn't work.
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Regards
>
> Olivier
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