In article <20060422181030.GA27801 at taylor.homelinux.net>, > # Capital letters can be indicated by a sound, or by the word > "capital", # or by raising the pitch of the capitalized word. > This seems to work, but when raising the pitch, once the first > capital letter is encountered, the entire text is spoken as > capitalized instead of a single letter or word. That's puzzling. I don't get that here, it only raises the pitch of the capitalised words. > Apostrophes in words should be spoken if they are set with the > --punct option. When --punct is used without any characters, the > apostrophe should be spoken just like any other punctuation > character. Otherwise, they should not be spoken. I'm unsure exactly how to announce an apostrophe, which differs from other punctuation in that it's inside a word rather than between them. For example, how should it say: "isn't" Should it split it into two "words", "isn't" = "isn apostrophe tee" "you'ld" = "you apostrophe el dee" sometimes the fragments may be unpronounceable. > # 5. If the text is spoken at a fast rate, should the sound icons > also # be shortened in duration? > ... But if it is a voice indicator like a word or something, it > might be useful to allow it to play faster if the speech rate is fast. Playing a recording faster would be tricky, probably needing to run "sox stretch". Truncating would be easier :-) > The punctuation levels should probably be added to the embedded > commands as well. Yes, I'll do that. > It seems that a z at the beginning of the first word of text to be > spoken is now pronounced with a major lithp. Thanks. I've found the problem now. It also affected [v] and [D] (as in "then").
