In article <20070204211210.GC20015 at lnx3.holmesgrown.com>, Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com> wrote: > 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? Usually the names of punctuation characters are spoken by the program which calls eSpeak. However, you can make eSpeak speak punctuation characters by using its command-line option: espeak --punct Or if you want it to speak only some punctuation characters, you can give it a string which contains those punctuation characters, eg. espeak --punct=",.?!"
