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

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

I asked about this about a year ago and Joanmarie pointed me to a thread 
where she discussed this with the espek-ng developers. I guess I'll have 
to find the espeak-ng developers list and ask there.




On 9/2/20 1:17 PM, orca-list gnome org wrote:
> This seems like something deliberate, though, and not a bug. I haven't 
> been able to make much sense of how to change things in espeak or 
> espeak-ng, like editing a language. Surely there would be a way to 
> change it. There's nothing in the speech dispatcher espeak-ng module's 
> config file.
>
>
> On 9/2/20 10:45 AM, josé Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> > Hi Ted.
> >
> > Testing with a little more attention I realized that the behavior in 
> > my environment is exactly as described by you.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > On 9/2/20 2:24 PM, Ted via orca-list wrote:
> > > The espeak-ng capitalization bug doesn't bother me, but I don't have 
> > > text in all caps too often.
> > >
> > > The behavior on my Arch system with Orca and espeak-ng is to say 
> > > capitalized letters only when using the left and right arrows to 
> > > navigate by character. When I navigate by line and word, it does not 
> > > speak capitals. My Debian Buster system uses the old espeak and does 
> > > not do that. I have Orca set to none for capitalization for both.
> > >
> > > What does grate on my nerves is a setting for the uppercase pitch 
> > > that is too high with all caps, like in titles and the example of 
> > > bash files you gave. I've had to tweak that setting down in pitch to 
> > > a point it is barely noticeable, then rely on the Orca key I've set 
> > > to cycle through the capitalization settings to be sure of upper and 
> > > lower case. Because of that, I kind of like the bug.
> > >
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