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

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

I am running speech-dispatcher 0.10.1, espeak-ng 1.50 and orca 3.36.6.


On 9/2/20 1:02 PM, John G. Heim wrote:
> speech-dispatcher 0.9.1
> eSpeak NG text-to-speech: 1.50
> orca 3.36.2
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> 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.
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> 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.