That might be more easily accomplished by altering the speech dictionaries used by espeak. Not sure exactly what files those would be as I'm on a windows machine here at work now and don't have access to my linux boxes at the moment to look further but I think the synth would be easer to reassign rather than messing with Speakup; just a thought. On 4/15/13, pj at pjb.com.au <pj at pjb.com.au> wrote: > Greetings, > > I'd like to have # pronounced as "hash", or even as "comment", > instead of as "number"; but when I edit > $ cd /sys/accessibility/speakup/i18n/ > $ vi characters > even as root, I get: > "/sys/accessibility/speakup/i18n/characters" E667: Fsync failed > > followed by lots of scary kernel messages like: > Apr 16 14:50:50 box8 kernel: [ 977.007098] updated 18 of 20 character > descriptions with 2 rejects > Apr 16 14:50:50 box8 kernel: [ 977.007114] character descriptions reset to > defaults > > even though file identifies it as a text file, and it's world-writeable: > $ file characters > characters: ASCII C program text > $ ls -l characters > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 4096 Apr 16 14:50 characters > > Is there a way for me to get "#" pronounced as "hash" ? > > and preferably configurable during run-time, > since mostly I might be editing a perl script, > but sometimes a form full of account numbers and membership numbers ? > > Regards, Peter Billam > > http://www.pjb.com.au pj at pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 > "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman > from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
