For almost all tts even tts that is burnt on chips like the Emic2 module there are commands you send to the synth that Controls speech attributes. Like punctuation and pitch etc. The speech-dispatcher should be talking to the a Capela synths if this is the alice speech from a Capela. If a tts does not have special commands then the screen reader has to do the parsing but the these voices do have commands speakup and the speech dispatcher should be able to control if everything is working right. -----Original Message----- From: Karen Lewellen <klewellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2021 11:03 PM To: Chime Hart <chime@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: No Interrupt in Voxin Embedded Voices? Chime, simply asking a question to hopefully lead to a solution. If these voices are embedded, what is supposed to control them at all? How would you tell the voice, for example, that only certain types of punctuation should be spoken? or how to manage upper case letters, or extended characters? If the voice is intended to just be a tts, i. e. read, instead of work in conjunction with a program, i. e. an actual screen reader, you may not have an easy solution. Many times I must inform others that tts, is not a screen reader. it is more often than not an engine. Some can work with actual screen reader software, programs that include keystrokes for those kings of controls, but many just read text, and little else. Just my stance, Karen On Sat, 10 Jul 2021, Chime Hart wrote: > Wow, after practicly an entire afternoon, we got Alicin-and-Samantha > installed in Debian on my laptop. We needed to run "voxinup" instead > of speechd-up. Voice sounds quite good, was about to explore > dictionary settings, when I realized no keys, controll or anything > else will interrupt speech. I must wait til it stops reading or > catches up if you type while its reading. I have no idea if there are > any places in Speakup where I can fix this, or would I report this > through Oralux? Thanks so much in advance Chime > >
