Re: [orca-list] Not Orca related exactly, but an espeak question

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

espeak "If you don't put this sentence between quotes, you will just hear its first word"

You can use either simple or double quotes, but they should match.

In the example above I used double quotes, otherwise the sentence would have ended after don.

Best,

Didier

On 17/12/2018 09:48, Tim via orca-list wrote:
> So I'm sitting on my couch and I'm connected to my Debian box via SSH, and I was playing around with the 
> East Peak say command originally, but then I just invoked espeak followed by sentence like tell me a story. 
> But I discovered that for whatever reason it would only say the first word, for example tell, or say. It 
> wouldn't actually read it the entire sentence. Any reason why this is? Is there a switch, or something else 
> like another syntax that's supposed to be used? I know a lot of people usually in Focus Peak say hi, or 
> something like that. But it just says say. Anyways sorry if this is off topic but it was just a curiosity 
> of mine
>
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