In article <20061103224310.GA4300 at lnx3.holmesgrown.com>, Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com> wrote: > I've been trying to use speechd-el within emacs, speech-dispatcher > and espeak. Basically, the combo is working pretty well but I can't > enable any detailed punctuation. The option in eSpeak to speak punctuation characters is: --punct Eg: speak --punct -f textfile But I don't know how you control this from speech-dispatcher. eSpeak can announce punctuation either by their names, or by sound icons (WAV files). Sound icons can be set up for various punctuation characters in text file: espeak-data/config. Add lines of the form: soundicon _[ /usr/share/sounds/sound-icons/left-square-bracket The spoken names are defined in eSpeak's dictsource/en_list file (or the equivalent file for another language), with an entry which gives the symbol (preceded by an underscore) and the phoneme string to be spoken. eg: _[ Elskwe@
