woops! sorry, I did not read all my mail before answering your earlier message. On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:19:35AM -0500, Luke Davis wrote: > Disregard my message on this subject (quoted below). It was the fault of > the DEC Express--apparently a symptom of switching systems too many times > without power cycling the synth. > > It started to do this same thing on my old machine, which I knew to have a > working speakup (well, except for halting when cut was used, but that's > neither here nor there). When I noticed that it pronounced "4th" as "th", > I power cycled the synth, and the problem was solved. Tried it on the AMD > just to be sure, and "0B" is now being pronounced as "0B". > > Sorry for the bad report. > > Luke > > On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Luke Davis wrote: > > > I apologize if this has been descussed before. I went back through the > > last few months of messages, but couldn't find anything on it. > > > > If the current CVS Speakup sees a character string, consisting of the > > digit zero, and a letter (I tested it with B and L), it only says the > > letter. > > > > Example: > > > > Need to get 0B from archives. > > > > Would be read as: > > > > Need to get B from archives. > > > > This is a problem. I can't imagine that such could be a feature, but I > > thought I would inquire. > > > > Kernel 2.6.18 running on a K7 system. > > > > The synth is a DEC Express. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Luke > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (71% of Full) Only 10 kinds of people: those who do binary, and those who do not. But you can get a few downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh