Hi Folks: We have been working on the extended ascii character set for speakup over the past couple of days and I thought I should get some input from the speakup community. Mostly the European community will be able to help best. In the extended ascii set there are a lot of accented characters which it would be nice to get the pronunciation as close as an American synth can get. These accents include circumflex, umlaut, cidilla and acute. My German tells me umlaut should be pronounced as oomlout. I believe the French pronunciation for acute is aggeu, well, that's as close as I can get this DoubleTalk to say it. I'm thinking cidilla should be something like sedeya and circumflex I'm lost on. If you have any suggestions on their pronunciation I'd like to hear them. You can either send them to the list with phonetic spellings as I have or you could get on the reflector and tell me in person. In any case your help would be appreciated. We are also trying to come up with a clear but short, relatively anyway, description of the graphic characters. Some like "double top centred" mean a double horizontal line with a single centred joint pointing down. Zippy, are we having fun yet? Kirk
