Re: [orca-list] Fw: Pronunciation issue with ibmtts

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi:

This should hopefully be fixed in Orca v2.28.0:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591734

Will

Olivier BERT wrote:
> 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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> > Mail : olivier bert terramitica net
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> >
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