Hi, On 29.05.2009 15:16, 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. > It works with Espeak in German, provided the version of the kernel is rather new; I've tested it with the latest GRML CD. It comes with kernel 2.6.28-grml, and it works well. On my desktop machine with GRML 2008-11 and kernel 2.6.26-grml it does not work, because I cannot write the direct file. > 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. > Note: You must use the -V option of your synth, e.g. the code for Dutch in Willem's case. Then it works. Alternative: Copy your language file in /usr/share/espeak-data/voices to default. In my case: cp de default > 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. If I set the punctuation and read-punctuation level in Speakup to 4, I still don't hear all punct chars spoken in German. In fact Speakup ommits most of them, among them important ones like quotation marks. GRML uses UTF-8 for the system. Hermann
