Re: [orca-list] Built in Controls for Espeak Pretty Please with Sugar, cheeries, whatever it takes on top :)

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Yes, user dictionaries work.  The word I mentioned in my earlier post was the bane of my existence for a bit 
because, when people got wind of it, they'd find ways to sneak it onto posts as a sort of sick joke.  When 
you have your screen reader going a million miles a minute listening away half-consciously, you don't have 
the reaction time to stop it from crashing before it reads that nasty little word.  So, (the screen reader I 
used at the time was Jaws), I added an entry in the Jaws user dictionary to pronounce it as "horrid little 
word" and it worked like a charm.  Adding such a feature to speech-dispatcher plugin for Eloquence will 
definitely fix this sort of issue.

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Luke Yelavich
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 2:26 AM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Built in Controls for Espeak Pretty Please with Sugar, cheeries, whatever it takes 
on top :)

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 04:59:18PM AEST, kendell clark wrote:
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> hi
> I know of this one. It has something to do with period symbols, 
> followed by an underline, followed by a 0. It makes eloquence announce 
> that as D O T H U N D R E D followed by whatever you're listening to.
> It turns ._2 to D O T H U N D R E D T W E N T Y , ./._3 into ... etc.

I wonder whether that can be worked around using user dictionaries. A while back, I committed a patch to 
speech-dispatcher that was submitted to enable the ibmtts/voxin user dictionaries. I haven't looked into how 
to use them myself, but perhaps we can come up with a list of issues and try to work around them with a 
default user dictionary shipped with speech-dispatcher.

Luke
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