All, I have added a feature to speakup in git which will allow characters to be directly sent to a synthesizer without using speakup's built in character pronunciations. The feature is controled by the "direct" pseudo file in /sys/module/speakup/parameters. Currently this is only supported by the softsynth and is off by default. If you would like to enable this feature, issue this command when the softsynth is active. echo 1 > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/direct The goal, after more testing, will be to make it default to on for the softsynth and add support for it, defaulted to off, for all of the other drivers. The reason for this feature is that it will allow better support for foreign languages, in particular, since software synthesizers like espeak already support them.
