Hi Steve, On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 11:23:44PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > After going through 19 messages on this thread, I tend to lean towards > keeping the processing in Speakup. I need to point out something I > haven't heard even mentioned yet and that is with Capitalization. The > theory behind speech dispatcher has always been for the synth to > control all punctuation and capitalization - fine. But when you do > that and use speech dispatcher with espeak, you always get stuck with > that god-awful speaking of "Capital" before every capital letter. > Where Speakup and Orca's old gnome-speech services module can adjust > for pitch to indicate capitalization. I know espeak supports pitch > change for upper case letters but I don't think the speech dispatcher > module for espeak does; I think that's the problem Like I say, > speakup's current logic gets around what I feel to be a big problem. The capitalization processing is not handled by any synthesizers that I know of other than espeak, so that is not going to be changed in speakup. William
