From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5319610991 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:56:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22F082A396D for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:56:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:56:27 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: +QgDgLH+/trzFtKLE5FK+p1CiJtQhWDz3ZH8V1dJlQSl 1235728586 Received: from cq.ftml.net (24-105-233-162.cm.mhcable.com [24.105.233.162]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C99ABB09F for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:56:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from chuckh by cq.ftml.net with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LczSE-0004Ja-4n for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:56:26 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:56:26 -0500 From: Chuck Hallenbeck To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: espeak and the letter z Message-ID: <20090227095626.GA16098@cq.ftml.net> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20090227005213.GA7046@cq.ftml.net> <20090126233619.cmbrannon@cox.net> <20090227081836.GA16486@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090227081836.GA16486@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) 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: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:56:27 -0000 Steve, I renamed lenny to squeeze in my sources.list, so I stayed with testing when lenny was promoted to stable. There won't be very many updates for lenny, mainly security fixes. Chuck On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 01:18:36AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Thanks, I'll have to watch for this when espeak gets upgraded on my > box. This brings me to my next question. I'm running Debian Lenny > and have done so for several months. I don't see any new packages > coming in since the formal production release of Lenny on Feb 14th. > So how are people with Lenny getting these newer releases? I thought > you had to go Unstable to get these. Is that what you did? My > /etc/sources still shows Lenny Main, pretty much like what was set up > when I installed back in October of '08. Thanks for the Debian help > here. > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:36:19PM -0600, Chris Brannon wrote: > > Chuck Hallenbeck writes: > > > the letter z now rhymes with say, or day, or gay, or pay, etc. It still > > > says zed when reading by line or by word, but when reading by character > > > > Chuck, > > It says zaid, which rhymes with paid. Listen closely, and you'll hear > > the final d. > > Anyway, here's a description of the problem and the fix. > > When you type z or read z with the speakup cursor, speakup sends the > > text zehd to espeakup. > > espeak renders zehd as zaid. > > The fix is trivial. > > echo '90 zed' > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/characters > > echo '122 zed' > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/characters > > > > -- Chris > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEAREDAAYFAkmnodwACgkQWSjv55S0LfHdfACffcsfhHMg+ItYlQnBa57H/iWj > d4UAn2HsqabaCXOG75tArVTfVy8VSfh3 > =1+bq > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (6% of Full) My web site: www.hallenbeck.ftml.net See also: www.wedit2.ml1.net -------- Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what is wrong with it.