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

["John G. Heim" <jheim math wisc edu>]

speech-dispatcher 0.9.1
eSpeak NG text-to-speech: 1.50
orca 3.36.2


These are the versions present in Ubuntu 20.04/focal. The problem first 
appeared when I upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10/eoan. I still have a machine 
running Ubuntu 19.04/disco and it does not have the problem.




On 9/2/20 10:36 AM, josé Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
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