Please consider my vote for separating the letters from the numbers (perhaps by simply inserting a space into the output string), speaking any which can be treated as words as such (which would then presumably become the default behavior), and reading the numbers however whatever options available for digit-by-digit or full number verbalization are set. JJ -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Kirk Reiser Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 3:55 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: contacting dectalk express driver maintainers I appreciate that there are probably some problems with the dectalk express driver. Unfortunately, I do not have a dectalk express or any other dectalk for that matter to do testing with. The capitalization fix is probably not to difficult and may be fixable without one to test with. The mixed numbers and partial words on the other hand is one of those problems where everybody has their own idea how it should work and would be very difficult to test without a unit to play with. The default dectalk behaviour as I'm sure you all know is to spell all words attached to numbers which is not what most dectalk users want. So I suspect in addition to working on the problem you all should discuss what type of behaviour you would prefer and then maybe I can put something together for someone to test with. It'll be slow but without a unit that's the best I can do. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
