Re: [orca-list] Speech dispatcher character pronounciations

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

My general thoughts on character pronuncuation are that the
characters, when spoken individually, should be kept as short as
possible as to not degrade speech performance.  That is, keep spoken
text to as few sylibals as possible.  That does prove to be a big
problem with these graphical symbols that require some degree of
description; I'm not sure how this should be addressed but certainly,
the more common punctuation marks can be kept really short like
appostrophy can be spoken as "tick" hyphen could be spoken as "dash",
asterisk could be spoken as "star" and onward.  Just my thoughts.

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 08:10:24AM +0000, Jonathan Duddington wrote:
> On 18 Aug, Zachary Kline <zkline speedpost net> wrote:
> > The one irritating thing is that sometimes characters are pronounced
> > oddly.  The best example I can think of at the moment is the *, for
> > instance when entering passwords. When typed it is pronounced
> > asterisk, but when I move over it with the arrow keys or backspace
> > over it I hear "symbol 25CF"
>
> This is the character code for "Black circle", which is the character
> which is used in password fields to replace the password characters.
>
> I don't know whether this should be fixed in Orca, Speech Dispatcher,
> or eSpeak.
>
> I can change eSpeak to say "Black circle" or something else, but I've
> already released version 1.44 (for Ubuntu Maverick).  What should it
> say for other languages?
>
> A change to eSpeak won't fix this for other synthesizers. 
>
> Perhaps Orca should realize that this is a hidden password and do
> something special?
>
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