Re: [orca-list] An oddity with Orca 3.36.5-1 on Arch/Mate

[Ted <orangegrovebear gmail com>]

I found the source of the issue. The voice setting for capitalized text 
had been changed to Spanish in the default configuration. I did not 
change it to Spanish. As best as I can remember, I added a word to the 
pronunciation dictionary in the default configuration soon after the 
update of Orca and Speech Dispatcher. When Orca reloaded the 
configuration the voice and the language (US English from Great Britten) 
had changed on its own as I described before. I apologize for not 
rechecking all of the settings before raising the issue. I'm not sure 
why the voice and language settings changed in Orca with the update, but 
it's resolved on my end.


On 8/25/20 10:21 AM, Ted wrote:
> I guess since both of those test pronounce  correctly, it's Orca. I 
> might add that the first time I changed the Orca configuration with 
> Orca key and space after the update, the speech language changed to US 
> English. I use Great Briton because the US voices sound off to me. 
> When I went through the list of languages available there was only NGB 
> and no default, which is what I had it set to before. I had to change 
> to NGB to get it to list Great Briton in the person list.
>
> The items in those lists are inaccessible to the flat review of Orca 
> when I tried to get the spellings, by the way.
>
>
> On 8/24/20 11:44 PM, Peter Vágner wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > I am unable to reproduce this here with orca master, 
> > speech-dispatcher 0.10 and espeak-ng master on arch linux.
> >
> >
> > Can you try to reproduce it by using commandline apps espeak and 
> > spd-say like this?
> >
> >
> > spd-say -l en "123 S 99ST"
> >
> > espeak -v en "123 S 99ST"
> >
> >
> > This way we are trying to find out where the problem might be whether 
> > it's an orca, a speech-dispatcher or an eSpeak-ng issue.
> >
> >
> > When using spd-say you might need to temporarily switch orca speech 
> > mode to off by pressing orca+s, pressing the enter key in the 
> > terminal to hear spd-say and then togle the speech mode back to on by 
> > pressing orca+s.
> >
> >
> > Does this sound okay for you?
> >
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
> >
> > Dňa 25. 8. 2020 o 5:54 Ted via orca-list napísal(a):
> > > In this version on my Arch system, when Orca reads a number followed 
> > > by a space and a capitalized letter, it seems to speak in a 
> > > non-english language. An example would be with an address such as, 
> > > 123 S 99ST , but not with mixed capitalization such as, 123 Sth 99ST.
> > > This occurs in Pluma, Libreoffice and  Mate terminal, among other 
> > > places. It does not seem to happen in edit fields in Firefox and 
> > > Thunderbird.
> > > I'm not sure this is caused by Orca because Speech Dispatcher was 
> > > updated around the same time. Espeak-ng was not updated though, and 
> > > I thought that was what handled pronunciation if not in the Orca 
> > > pronunciation entries.
> > >
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