Re: [orca-list] pronunciation dictionary and unicode characters

[Graham Pearce <grahamwp gmail com>]

Hi Alex,

Oops, I should have clarified that this problem occurred when I 
restarted Orca, not while I was putting the entry into the pronunciation 
dictionary (ViaVoice had no problem reading out the replacement string). 
So it's definitely not a ViaVoice crash-words issue. I'm on Orca 3.4.2, BTW.

Re: raising Espeak's rate, I'll keep that in mind too ... seems pretty 
straightforward per a quick Google search.

Graham

On 2/01/2014 9:59 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> Have you tried to see if this behavior is exhibited with E-speak as the
> synthesizer?  We need to determine if this is an Orca problem or an
> Eloquence/ViaVoice one.  You know there are certain words that crash that
> thing, right?  If you put the syllables web hes and day together in one
> contiguous word, it will crash viavoice every time, for instance.  You may
> be dealing with such a situation now.  Hope not because you'd be stuck if
> you were.  Viavoice is closed source and isn't being updated at the code
> level.
>
> Welcome to Linux.  Hope this gets resolved soon.  Incidentally, you can get
> e-speak going to speeds that would leave viavoice coughing in its dust if
> you tweak it.
>
> Regards,
> Alex M
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Pearce
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> Subject: [orca-list] pronunciation dictionary and unicode characters
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a total newbie to Gnome and Orca, having only installed them through
> Vinux a few days ago, and a relative newbie to Linux (I've dabbled with it
> in the past, which came in quite handy for the tale I'm about to relate!)
>
> I installed Voxin to get access to IBM Viavoice because (a) I like its voice
> and (b) it can speak much faster than Espeak under Orca. However, I found
> the way it spells out abbreviations to be annoying. I tried to use the
> pronunciation dictionary to make it say °C as "degrees c" rather than
> "degrees centigrade", but this caused Orca to crash with some sort of error
> message about unicode and being out-of-range (according to my sighted
> assistant). I was only able to recover by loading Speakup, using the locate
> command to find the customisations file, and editing it with Nano.
>
> Is there a way to make  this pronunciation entry without crashing Orca, or,
> even better, is there a way to turn off IBM Viavoice's abbreviations?
>
> Thanks!
> Graham
>
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