Re: [orca-list] espeak-ng and capitalization?

[josé Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Strangely, this bug is not present in my environment. What version of 
speech-dispatcher are you using?

On 9/2/20 12:28 PM, John G. Heim wrote:
> I am pretty sure this is a bug in espeak-ng. I already have the orca 
> capitalization style set to none. It behaves as expected with voxim 
> and rhvoice. In some previous version of orca, this bug in espeak-ng 
> was exposed and it came up on this list. If you use the version of 
> orca in Ubuntu disco, it works as expected. If you upgrade to eoan or 
> focal, it does not work as expected. But when this came up earlier on 
> this list, it was said to be a bug in espeak-ng. I can believe that 
> because it doesn't happen with other speech engines.
>
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> This is one of the things that puzzles me though. Isn't everybody 
> being driven crazy by this bug? Maybe the espeak-ng developers don't 
> use orca.
>
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> On 9/2/20 9:56 AM, josé Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > In the orca preferences screen, more specifically in the voice tab, 
> > there is the capitalization option that can help.
> >
> > I set this option to none.
> >
> >
> > On 9/2/20 11:19 AM, John G. Heim via orca-list wrote:
> > > Anybody know the status of the bug with espeak-ng and 
> > > capitalization? If I use espeak-ng with orca, instead of raising the 
> > > pitch for capital leters, it says the word "capital", which is 
> > > driving me crazy. How are other people dealing with this? I bought 
> > > voxim but that has its own drawbacks.
> > >
> > >
> > > This bug in espeak-ng is a huge problem for me because i do a lot of 
> > > bash scripting and the standard for bash variables is to use all 
> > > upper case, like environmental variables. It takes forever to find 
> > > bugs if I have to listen to it saying capital before each letter in 
> > > a variable name.