When I use Speech-Dispatcher combined with Speechd-up and Speakup, I can use it with good punctuation control as Speakup does all the work from what I can tell. I now have it working well with both Espeak and Cepstral voices. Where I have a problem is with other applications outside the Speakup/Speechd-up relm. An example would be speechd-el under Emacs. In there, I lose all punctuation characters. Given these facts, one would conclude that speechd-el would be the problem. Well not the case. I tested spd-say the command client that talks to speech-dispatcher, and it also dropped many punct characters. I started messing with the variable in the driver configuration file for speech-dispatcher that strips out various punctuation characters from being spoken. Why are so many punctuation chars stripped out by default? Even when I try to not strip any chars, many still don't get spoken by espeak; any reason for this? I guess what I'm looking for would be a good background explanation for character stripping and what should be passed through to the synths. I'm just trying to get all this together so I can use speech-dispatcher with multiple environments. Frankly so far, I find it most compatible with the Speakup/Speechd-up environment. -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://holmesgrown.ld.net/
