I see what your saying, I just thought that allowing the user to control whether or not speakup did the processing was a sort of fix for all. I'm not even sure that would help/solve the problem, was just a suggestion. Thanks, Tyler Littlefield http://tds-solutions.net Twitter: sorressean On Apr 25, 2010, at 4:14 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > Hi Tyler, > > well, another thing that is happening is the thread that is going on on > the list about the speakup punctuation level and the reading punctuation > level. These are controled by speakup's internal punctuation > processing, and have nothing to do with the way the synthesizer handles > punctuation. > > The issue is that a user can control both the synthesizer punctuation > and the speakup punctuation levels and they are not related to each > other at all. IMHO this is confusing, and we should just have the synth > handle punctuation. > > William > > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 03:25:34PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote: >> Why not an option that would allow for speakup to handle punctuation or to bypass the speakup punctuation and pass it off to the synth for processing? >> >> Thanks, >> Tyler Littlefield >> http://tds-solutions.net >> Twitter: sorressean >> >> On Apr 25, 2010, at 3:23 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
