Hi, yes, this is a useful point as well, but sometimes the spelling is a good thing to allow so an option could be made to turn it on and off as needed or a command line option as the default. bye My web page is at http://www.nickgawronski.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "John R. Jeavons" <jeavons@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 12:34 AM Subject: RE: contacting DecTalk express driver maintainers > 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 at braille.uwo.ca > [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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
