Fwiw, I am using a 2.0 version of speakup at work with a DEC Express and it says the numbers and letters, although it tries to speak it as a word. I.E. 1s is pronounced ones and 2s is pronounced like twos. On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, luke wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Tony Baechler wrote: > >> luke wrote: >>> Earlier today I wrote: >>> >>> "If it's on the right, replace the 1s with 2s." >>> >>> There is a digit one before the first "s" and a two before the second. >>> However, my current speakup reads this line as: >>> >>> "If it's on the right, replace the s with s." >>> >>> If I place the speakup cursor on the "1s" and hit "read word", I get "s". >>> If I hit read word twice (I.E. spell word), it will then say "1 s". >>> >> >> >> >> This is a DEC-Talk Express bug. Good luck fixing it, I've been trying for >> years. > > The thing that is driving me crazy the most, is that I *did* fix this, > over a year ago. For some reason which I will never understand, I didn't > promote the fix to my speakup initialization and configuration script, > where I do all of my other rate, pitch, character, etc. setup. > > I so rarely reboot my home system, that it's been about that long since I > had to perform the fix, and the last time, about 8 months ago before last > week, I apparently still remembered how to do it. > > I'm going to have to spend some time playing with this, and if I can get > it fixed again, I'll figure out a way to get it included in source for > the DEC Express driver or something. > > Luke > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
