I am the maintainer of the Espeak Afrikaans voice and sometimes use the voice myself. Here is some info on the machine I have tested on. Please advise on how I should test? Script started on Fri 29 May 2009 15:44:24 SAST root at bid:~# echo $LANG en_ZA.UTF-8 root at bid:~# cd /sys/modules[K/speakup/parameters/ root at bid:/sys/module/speakup/parameters# ls [00m[00mattrib_bleep[00m [00mchartab[00m [00mfull_time[00m [00mpunc_all[00m [00mreading_punc[00m [00msynth_direct[00m [00mbell_pos[00m [00mcursor_time[00m [00mjiffy_delta[00m [00mpunc_level[00m [00mrepeats[00m [00mtone[00m [00mbleeps[00m [00mdelay_time[00m [00mkey_echo[00m [00mpunc_most[00m [00msay_control[00m [00mtrigger_time[00m [00mbleep_time[00m [00mdelimiters[00m [00mkeymap[00m [00mpunc_some[00m [00msay_word_ctl[00m [00mversion[00m [00mcaps_start[00m [00mdirect[00m [00mlang[00m [00mpunct[00m [00msilent[00m [00mvoice[00m [00mcaps_stop[00m [00mex_num[00m [00mno_interrupt[00m [00mquiet[00m [00mspell_delay[00m [00mvol[00m [00mcharacters[00m [00mfreq[00m [00mpitch[00m [00mrate[00m [00msynth[00m [mroot at bid:/sys/module/speakup/parameters# cat version Speakup version 3.0.3 soft synthesizer driver version 2.4 root at bid:/sys/module/speakup/parameters# cat lang 0 root at bid:/sys/module/speakup/parameters# exit exit Script done on Fri 29 May 2009 15:46:26 SAST Linux bid 2.6.27-8-eeepc #1 SMP Sun Nov 16 12:02:12 MST 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Regards, Willem On Fri, 29 May 2009, Kirk Reiser wrote: > The direct option is supposed to allow a softsynth like espeakup > handle special characters and individual characters rather than > attempting to do it uniformly like we've been doing in speakup for > many years. > > We have been talking about it on-and-off for a while now on the irc > channel and decided it needs testing so we can get the kinks worked > out for languages other than English. > > For characters such as umlauts and other accents you would need to > have the appropriate utf-8 character set loaded into the kernel. If > you have than thank you for the apraisal. We realize it still needs > work but without folks trying it we can't fix it. Both William Hubbs > and I are native English speakers and although I speak a little German > I've not really played with getting my softsynth to use it so we > really need patient help from speakers of other languages. > Kirk > -- > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support.
