Re: [orca-list] Orca and greek symbols

[Max <heavy9922 gmail com>]

Hi Joanye.

I'm not talking about any specific cases. I just noticed that Russian 
speech synthesizer does not pronounce the Greek characters. For this 
reason, I asked who should control the pronunciation of characters: 
"orca", or speech synthesizer :).


Joanmarie Diggs пишет:
> Hey Max.
>
> The short answer is: It depends and I need more specific information if
> you want a more specific answer.
>
> In the current (both stable and unstable) versions of Orca, quite a bit
> of pre-processing of symbols is done in Orca for MathML. It's not every
> last possible symbol under the sun, but quite a few symbols are now
> being turned into spoken words by Orca before sent to the synthesizer.
> If it's not MathML but just a symbol in the middle of text, it depends
> on the symbol. In addition, turning Math-related symbols into spoken
> words was done in Orca over time. Thus the older the version of Orca
> being used, the more likely it is that the synthesizer must know how to
> say the characters.
>
> If you want a more concrete answer than that, I need more concrete
> information from you including exact URL, exact line, and exact key
> press used.
>
> --joanie
>
> On 07/05/2016 11:20 AM, Max wrote:
> > Hi Joanye.
> >
> > It uses "RHVoice" Russian speech synthesizer. With "espeak" - everything
> > works fine.
> > I've already told him solutions to this problem, but I have a question:
> > "orca" conveys the characters on "speech-dispatcher" in the form of
> > words, or in the form in which they are in the text? Ie speech
> > synthesizer must know how to say these characters, or the pronunciation
> > is written on the side of "orca"?
> >
> >
> > Joanmarie Diggs пишет:
> > > Orca is presenting the individual symbols and MathML for me using Orca
> > > master with espeak. What version of Orca and what synthesizer are you
> > > using?
> > >
> > > On 07/04/2016 04:16 PM, Дмитрий Хромченко wrote:
> > > > Hello.
> > > > Orca is not speaking greek symbols in wikipedia.
> > > > For example,
> > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_product
> > > >
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