Recent posts by Thomas Ward and others have prompted this suggestion for a speakup feature that might greatly facilitate things for people who deal with program code such as C or C++, and might make exception dictionaries less critical to implement. Many times the mixture of capitalization within an alphabetic string is unusual in program code, and of course it is important. I first ran across this many years ago with the name of the popular data base package "d base ii". Now what you should have heard inside the quotes is what everyone says when they pronounce it, but "d base" is actually written "dBASE", and I defy you to hear that correctly without spelling it out character by character. Here is my suggestion: When speakup is sending a series of letters to the synth and notices that (1) the current char is upper case, and (2) the last char sent was lower case, then (3) before sending the current char it should send whatever is needed to break the current string into two parts. Maybe that would be a CR, or a space, or some unspoken control char, or whatever. The result would be "d base" instead of "dBASE", and C programmers will recognize immediately that there will be zillions of similar funny case mixtures that will be spoken more correctly if the transition from lower to upper case within a string is broken up with a neutral unspoken element that serves only to cause the synth to pronounce what it has already received and treat the following as a new word. This would perhaps be an inexpensive speakup modification that would dramatically improve its performance for some of us. Chuck *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>* Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waning Crescent (1% of Full)
