From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.121]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5E6210A8C for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:42:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from linux1.localdomain ([66.25.35.110]) by cdptpa-omta04.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20081019004311.TMYU890.cdptpa-omta04.mail.rr.com@linux1.localdomain> for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:43:11 +0000 Received: by linux1.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1BB8143C01; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:43:11 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:43:11 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: speakup mailing list Subject: speakup direct mode Message-ID: <20081019004311.GA8440@linux1> Mail-Followup-To: speakup mailing list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:42:13 -0000 All, I have added a feature to speakup in git which will allow characters to be directly sent to a synthesizer without using speakup's built in character pronunciations. The feature is controled by the "direct" pseudo file in /sys/module/speakup/parameters. Currently this is only supported by the softsynth and is off by default. If you would like to enable this feature, issue this command when the softsynth is active. echo 1 > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/direct The goal, after more testing, will be to make it default to on for the softsynth and add support for it, defaulted to off, for all of the other drivers. The reason for this feature is that it will allow better support for foreign languages, in particular, since software synthesizers like espeak already support them.