Hi, I think there should be an option just to toggel "controlled by synth' or 'controlled by speakup', there are advantages to both. Alex On 4/25/10, William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Greg, > > an exception dictionary would be a good idea, but I'm thinking that we > should put that at the synthesizer level. AFAIK, this is supported by > the hardware synths right? > > William > > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 02:31:13PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I'd say to just let the synthesizer deal with pronunciation, though >> the best of both worlds would be to allow the user to switch among >> both options, perhaps by loading a pronunciation dictionary to >> somewhere under /sys/accessibility/speakup, as is done with chartab >> and friends now. >> >> Greg >> >> >> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 04:23:19PM -0500, 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 >> > >> >> - -- >> web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org >> gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc >> skype: gregn1 >> (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) >> >> - -- >> Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAkvUtKEACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyArqQCfY3WnKts0e6wP69aOqQYRgFiE >> J1sAoMN6J74knvk8i1Mh7pdwSo0mUZ8A >> =430V >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >
