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

[Ted <orangegrovebear gmail com>]

I don't find a mailing list for espeak-ng with a web search, but it's 
multi-platform. Git Hub, Maybe. Let us know, I'd like to read what 
they're working on and issues.

On 9/2/20 1:03 PM, John G. Heim wrote:
> 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.
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> 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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