All, speakup does a number of things to have all of the characters and punctuation marks pronounced the same way for all of the synthesizers it supports instead of allowing the synthesizers to process them. The disadvantage of this is primarily obvious for internationalization. We are forcing English pronunciations instead of allowing the synthesizer to pronounce things in the correct language. For the softsynth, there is a direct option, which passes things straight to the synthesizer. I am wondering though if we should just get rid of all of the character and punctuation processing that is part of speakup and allow the synthesizer to handle this? This is just an idea right now. I am not planning on doing this without discussion; I am wondering at this point what others think. So, your input is welcome. Thanks, William
