Hi All: This is rather puzzling? In all the years I've enjoyed listening to
Voxin on a laptop, I never had many punctuation symbols to waste my time. My
prompt-and-the host name is "dance" Eventually I purchased 2 embedded voices
from Oralux, preferring Allison. But listening, I would hear every single
colon, tick, question-mark, and dash. Gilles says dictionaries are only
available for regular IBM TTS. So, I switched back to this older voice, but
still punctuation is still wailing along. We modified dictionaries, but they
had `no affect. Here could be a telling clue? In the Speakup pannel, while
volume announce numbers as you alter them, an only way of changing levels are
in alsa mixer. Obviously I have both reading punc-and-punc level on 0. When
punc level is on 3, my prompt says "dance tilda colon grater than" Belo that
setting, its "dance colon" I looked at files in /etc/speakup as well as i18n
many are on 0. I did ask Samuel, also wrote Gilles from Oralux, like others
advised me to read the documentation. I did. While, sure it would be nice to
enjoy dictionaries in Voxin, as Speakup doesn't have these. I would just be
happy enough to not hear any punctuation. I even tried running "fenrir" which
does have a pronunciation dictionary. I couldn't get any speech in Fenrir, as I
don't have an adequate way of switching among Speakup-and-Fenrir, as I've heard
they don't play well together. Any tips, guidance, and suggestions would be
most appreciated as in 1week we are going away with this laptop. Thanks in
advance
By the way espeakup does not have extra punctuation.
Chime
