* espeak and the letter z
@ Chuck Hallenbeck
` Lorenzo Taylor
` (2 more replies)
0 siblings, 3 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Chuck Hallenbeck @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Hi all,
I just upgraded espeak via the Debian package to 1.40.02-1, and found
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
or when pressing the z key, it says zay instead of zed.
Anybody else see this?
Chuck
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--------
Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you,
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread* Re: espeak and the letter z espeak and the letter z Chuck Hallenbeck @ ` Lorenzo Taylor ` Terry D. Cudney ` Terry D. Cudney ` Chris Brannon 2 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread From: Lorenzo Taylor @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Using Orca with speech-dispatcher here at the moment. I only hear zed all the time. I even tried turning on my alphanumeric key echo and I still got zed. espeak z gives me zed. Are you using espeakup? Not sure about that, since I'm not currently using it here. Maybe someone else is experiencing it. It doesn't seem to be an eSpeak problem. HTH, Lorenzo -- Great Goddess Isis, Thou who art above the stars, Grant us peace and love. --Lorenzo Taylor ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: espeak and the letter z ` Lorenzo Taylor @ ` Terry D. Cudney 0 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Terry D. Cudney @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Hi again, I'm getting 'z' pronounced as zay with espeak... not espeakup on this system. Not sure which version I have, but it's the latest from Debian Lenny update/upgrade. --terry On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 08:15:06PM -0500, Lorenzo Taylor wrote: > Using Orca with speech-dispatcher here at the moment. I only hear zed all > the time. I even tried turning on my alphanumeric key echo and I still > got zed. > > espeak z > > gives me zed. Are you using espeakup? Not sure about that, since I'm not > currently using it here. Maybe someone else is experiencing it. It > doesn't seem to be an eSpeak problem. > > HTH, > Lorenzo > -- > Great Goddess Isis, > Thou who art above the stars, > Grant us peace and love. > --Lorenzo Taylor > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Name: Terry D. Cudney Phone: 705-812-4949 SIP: 8978@ekiga.net E-mail: terry@octothorp.org Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like... having a peeing sectionin a swimming pool. Tired of technology? Check this out: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: espeak and the letter z espeak and the letter z Chuck Hallenbeck ` Lorenzo Taylor @ ` Terry D. Cudney ` Chris Brannon 2 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Terry D. Cudney @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Hi Chuck and everyone, Yes, I noticed this too... kind of annoying!? Where did this come from? --terry > I just upgraded espeak via the Debian package to 1.40.02-1, and found > 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 > or when pressing the z key, it says zay instead of zed. > > Anybody else see this? > > Chuck > > -- > The Moon is Waxing Crescent (4% 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. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Name: Terry D. Cudney Phone: 705-812-4949 SIP: 8978@ekiga.net E-mail: terry@octothorp.org Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like... having a peeing sectionin a swimming pool. Tired of technology? Check this out: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: espeak and the letter z espeak and the letter z Chuck Hallenbeck ` Lorenzo Taylor ` Terry D. Cudney @ ` Chris Brannon ` Steve Holmes ` Jonathan Duddington 2 siblings, 2 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Chris Brannon @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: espeak and the letter z ` Chris Brannon @ ` Steve Holmes ` Zachary Kline ` Chuck Hallenbeck ` Jonathan Duddington 1 sibling, 2 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Steve Holmes @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup -----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----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: espeak and the letter z ` Steve Holmes @ ` Zachary Kline ` Steve Holmes ` Chuck Hallenbeck 1 sibling, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread From: Zachary Kline @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Hi Steve, I believe what's happening here is that people are running Espeakup from git. I stand to be corrected on this, not doing so myself. Hope this helps, Zack. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: espeak and the letter z ` Zachary Kline @ ` Steve Holmes 0 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Steve Holmes @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Nah, the original poster said something about upgrading a Debian package. I have espeakup here from the extras subdir of the speakup archive pulled from git. But this observation was with espeak; my version of espeak is 1.37 right now. On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:33:35AM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi Steve, > I believe what's happening here is that people are running Espeakup from > git. > I stand to be corrected on this, not doing so myself. > Hope this helps, > Zack. > _______________________________________________ > 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) iEYEAREDAAYFAkmnrjQACgkQWSjv55S0LfFX9QCeL6B1bPg6vG39K0XyWKs4Qr+q iIgAoPZXqm1vpkWRLVIBSwhsEq+bChRm =V/+R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: espeak and the letter z ` Steve Holmes ` Zachary Kline @ ` Chuck Hallenbeck 1 sibling, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Chuck Hallenbeck @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: espeak and the letter z ` Chris Brannon ` Steve Holmes @ ` Jonathan Duddington ` Willem van der Walt ` (2 more replies) 1 sibling, 3 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Jonathan Duddington @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup On 27 Feb, Chris Brannon <cmbrannon@cox.net> wrote: > When you type z or read z with the speakup cursor, speakup sends the > text zehd to espeakup. Why not just send "z" ? -- Pluto: news/email reader and text database Speak: text-to-speech system Demo versions of Pluto and Speak from: http://home.clara.net/jsd ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: espeak and the letter z ` Jonathan Duddington @ ` Willem van der Walt ` Chris Brannon ` William Hubbs 2 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Willem van der Walt @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. I have just changed the entry in characters and cat it to /sys/module/speakup/parameters/characters to solve this. On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Jonathan Duddington wrote: > On 27 Feb, Chris Brannon <cmbrannon@cox.net> wrote: > > When you type z or read z with the speakup cursor, speakup sends the > > text zehd to espeakup. > > Why not just send "z" ? > > -- > Pluto: news/email reader and text database > Speak: text-to-speech system > Demo versions of Pluto and Speak from: http://home.clara.net/jsd > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: espeak and the letter z ` Jonathan Duddington ` Willem van der Walt @ ` Chris Brannon ` Jonathan Duddington ` William Hubbs 2 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread From: Chris Brannon @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Jonathan Duddington writes: > Why not just send "z" ? It was late when I mailed, so I didn't think of that. It works for espeak. Speakup sends zehd, because most of the hardware synthesizers that it supports were designed in the US. Here in the states, we render z as zee. Speakup's lead developer is Canadian. -- Chris ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: espeak and the letter z ` Chris Brannon @ ` Jonathan Duddington 0 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Jonathan Duddington @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup On 27 Feb, Chris Brannon <cmbrannon@cox.net> wrote: > Speakup sends zehd, because most of the hardware synthesizers that > it supports were designed in the US. Here in the states, we render z > as zee. eSpeak's "en" voice says "z" as "zed". The "en-us" voice says "zee". ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: espeak and the letter z ` Jonathan Duddington ` Willem van der Walt ` Chris Brannon @ ` William Hubbs ` Michael Whapples ` Steve Holmes 2 siblings, 2 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: William Hubbs @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:55:31AM +0000, Jonathan Duddington wrote: > On 27 Feb, Chris Brannon <cmbrannon@cox.net> wrote: > > When you type z or read z with the speakup cursor, speakup sends the > > text zehd to espeakup. > > Why not just send "z" ? Actually this can be done if you are running the latest speakup, it is just not set as the default. There is a sys file for speakup called /sys/module/speakup/parameters/direct. If you set the value in there to 1, text will be sent directly to espeak with no speakup processing. William -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmrAIsACgkQblQW9DDEZThbeACbB0Z+hEIJJ7sDJIPvRZA1tHS0 MwMAnRtPIwA8IuuzRnC+cYHHLmmIeDol =sxyi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: Re: espeak and the letter z ` William Hubbs @ ` Michael Whapples ` Steve Holmes ` Steve Holmes 1 sibling, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread From: Michael Whapples @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. On this topic, I know that speechd-up modifies some of speakup's settings when it starts (I think characters was an example). I am slightly split in my mind whether this really should be done (particularly as default), but I can see the arguments for it and this z issue highlights it so may be espeakup could do some of this setting stuff (I would opt that it should only alter stuff if certain options are given, so leaving the default as no modification of speakup's settings). Any other views? Also as a separate question, but linked, by setting /sys/modules/speakup/parameters/direct will settings like punctuation level stop working (IE. do you mean it doesn't process the character table or do you mean speakup does absolutely no processing of text)? Michael Whapples On 23/12/42 19:59, William Hubbs wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:55:31AM +0000, Jonathan Duddington wrote: > >> On 27 Feb, Chris Brannon<cmbrannon@cox.net> wrote: >> >>> When you type z or read z with the speakup cursor, speakup sends the >>> text zehd to espeakup. >>> >> Why not just send "z" ? >> > > Actually this can be done if you are running the latest speakup, it is > just not set as the default. > > There is a sys file for speakup called > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/direct. If you set the value in there > to 1, text will be sent directly to espeak with no speakup processing. > > William > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkmrAIsACgkQblQW9DDEZThbeACbB0Z+hEIJJ7sDJIPvRZA1tHS0 > MwMAnRtPIwA8IuuzRnC+cYHHLmmIeDol > =sxyi > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: Re: espeak and the letter z ` Michael Whapples @ ` Steve Holmes 0 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Steve Holmes @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Yes, the influince of different speech synths, libraries and support layers is confusing enough. My opinion is any speech charactistics including pronunciation should be controled by the screen reader application or speakup in this case and *maybe* by the synth itself but never by the stuff in the middle. And while I'm on this subject, I can't resist the opportunity to complain once more that synthesizers should *NEVER* plug in substitutions for abreviations! On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 11:08:39AM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote: > On this topic, I know that speechd-up modifies some of speakup's > settings when it starts (I think characters was an example). I am > slightly split in my mind whether this really should be done > (particularly as default), but I can see the arguments for it and this z > issue highlights it so may be espeakup could do some of this setting > stuff (I would opt that it should only alter stuff if certain options > are given, so leaving the default as no modification of speakup's > settings). > > Any other views? > > Also as a separate question, but linked, by setting > /sys/modules/speakup/parameters/direct will settings like punctuation > level stop working (IE. do you mean it doesn't process the character > table or do you mean speakup does absolutely no processing of text)? > > Michael Whapples > On 23/12/42 19:59, William Hubbs wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:55:31AM +0000, Jonathan Duddington wrote: >> >>> On 27 Feb, Chris Brannon<cmbrannon@cox.net> wrote: >>> >>>> When you type z or read z with the speakup cursor, speakup sends the >>>> text zehd to espeakup. >>>> >>> Why not just send "z" ? >>> >> >> Actually this can be done if you are running the latest speakup, it is >> just not set as the default. >> >> There is a sys file for speakup called >> /sys/module/speakup/parameters/direct. If you set the value in there >> to 1, text will be sent directly to espeak with no speakup processing. >> >> William >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAkmrAIsACgkQblQW9DDEZThbeACbB0Z+hEIJJ7sDJIPvRZA1tHS0 >> MwMAnRtPIwA8IuuzRnC+cYHHLmmIeDol >> =sxyi >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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) iEYEAREDAAYFAkmr344ACgkQWSjv55S0LfFVMwCgtZLyjsn+UmeSmJGbTx/6XPQv XvoAoPqSfU+Nxa2WJY/FBrQew6ZA1KXC =boFC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: espeak and the letter z ` William Hubbs ` Michael Whapples @ ` Steve Holmes ` Steve Holmes 1 sibling, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread From: Steve Holmes @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 I'm not sure what is goin on here but I tried successfully to build speakup from git and did a 'make modules_install' from root and all modules were built and installed in the ..../extra/speakup and show today's date. But when I try and update /sys/module/speakup/parameters/characters to get rid of that zehd crap, I get the following error. [ 957.339003] character descriptions reset to defaults and the update does not take place. I get this when I edit the file directly and attempt to save it. If I echo the updated file from another location, to the proper place, I get no messages but it doesn't get updated. Also, I do not see a file called direct anywhere in the /sys/module/speakup/parameters direct any place. This makes me wonder if I even got the right code updated. I can't really tell for sure. When I do a cat version, I see 3.0.3 with software synthesizer driver 2.4. Also, when I do a speakupconf load, I still get all the 'invalid parameter' errors and my punct_* files get emptied. On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 03:39:23PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:55:31AM +0000, Jonathan Duddington wrote: > > On 27 Feb, Chris Brannon <cmbrannon@cox.net> wrote: > > > When you type z or read z with the speakup cursor, speakup sends the > > > text zehd to espeakup. > > > > Why not just send "z" ? > > Actually this can be done if you are running the latest speakup, it is > just not set as the default. > > There is a sys file for speakup called > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/direct. If you set the value in there > to 1, text will be sent directly to espeak with no speakup processing. > > William > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkmrAIsACgkQblQW9DDEZThbeACbB0Z+hEIJJ7sDJIPvRZA1tHS0 > MwMAnRtPIwA8IuuzRnC+cYHHLmmIeDol > =sxyi > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > 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) iEYEAREDAAYFAkm9SyoACgkQWSjv55S0LfG/RgCgzivTvjC37J7ZLVGwpZNQILY2 iXcAmQG2uJAGn4sYOuH2qkBIWtyZHq2e =FwFS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: espeak and the letter z ` Steve Holmes @ ` Steve Holmes 0 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Steve Holmes @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 In reply to my original message, I figured out my problem I just reported. Since I use a RAMFS I had to do a 'update-initramfs -u' and that got me to use the correct speakup modules. It appears that most of the speakup parameters are updating with speakupconf load now. I still make a couple observations but I will have to trace the script and see if I can offer more details. But at least I don't get a bunch of errors like I did previously. But I just tried to restore an updated characters from my saved parameters and that doesn't work. I can save individual chars like '122 z' and that seemed to update correctly with a kernel message that one character was replaced. So I may have to rethink how speakupconf will work. Hmmm, maybe a rewrite is in order. On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:38:34AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > I'm not sure what is goin on here but I tried successfully to build > speakup from git and did a 'make modules_install' from root and all > modules were built and installed in the ..../extra/speakup and show > today's date. > > But when I try and update /sys/module/speakup/parameters/characters to > get rid of that zehd crap, I get the following error. > > [ 957.339003] character descriptions reset to defaults > and the update does not take place. I get this when I edit the file > directly and attempt to save it. If I echo the updated file from > another location, to the proper place, I get no messages but it > doesn't get updated. > > Also, I do not see a file called direct anywhere in the > /sys/module/speakup/parameters direct any place. This makes me wonder > if I even got the right code updated. I can't really tell for sure. > When I do a cat version, > > I see 3.0.3 with software synthesizer driver 2.4. > > Also, when I do a speakupconf load, I still get all the 'invalid > parameter' errors and my punct_* files get emptied. > > On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 03:39:23PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:55:31AM +0000, Jonathan Duddington wrote: > > > On 27 Feb, Chris Brannon <cmbrannon@cox.net> wrote: > > > > When you type z or read z with the speakup cursor, speakup sends the > > > > text zehd to espeakup. > > > > > > Why not just send "z" ? > > > > Actually this can be done if you are running the latest speakup, it is > > just not set as the default. > > > > There is a sys file for speakup called > > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/direct. If you set the value in there > > to 1, text will be sent directly to espeak with no speakup processing. > > > > William > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iEYEARECAAYFAkmrAIsACgkQblQW9DDEZThbeACbB0Z+hEIJJ7sDJIPvRZA1tHS0 > > MwMAnRtPIwA8IuuzRnC+cYHHLmmIeDol > > =sxyi > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > > 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) iEYEAREDAAYFAkm9V2gACgkQWSjv55S0LfESIACfYJgd1BMQliwFAG+s6KAvuP8q pKIAoKV1cVXY5mFFOxPlZwOhSlcY7SZz =VK16 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
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