Speakup.conf and the switch-synth scripts

Speakup.conf and the switch-synth scripts

[Hermann]

Hi,
finally I managed to find and install the scripts.
They come in the contrib directory of the GIT packages of Speakup.
Speakupconf is OK so far, but with the switch scripts there are some 
problems:
Talkwith: It doesn't include the -V option for Espeakup, so using it 
results in invoking Espeak with the default voice. If non-English, one has 
either to copy the apropriate language file to "default" or not use this 
script. But I think it is possible to accomplish it by adding a language 
parameter.
Speakwith: Why does it cause all capital letters to be spoken, no matter 
what I've set in Speech-Dispatcher; it happens at least with Espeak as the 
default synth. Using or not using the -x parameter makes no difference.
Hermann

Re: Speakup.conf and the switch-synth scripts

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Hi Hermann,

I no longer have speech-dispatcher installed here, so if you want to
work out a fix for the missing -x option for speechd-up, I would be
happy to have it.

The two scripts, speakwith and talkwith, are identical except that
speakwith assumes your "soft" device is speech-dispatcher based, and
therefore runs speechd-up when soft is selected, while talkwith assumes
you will use espeak with the espeakup connector. 

Chuck

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Re: Speakup.conf and the switch-synth scripts

[Hermann]

On 04.06.2009 17:59, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> Hi Hermann,
>
> I no longer have speech-dispatcher installed here, so if you want to
> work out a fix for the missing -x option for speechd-up, I would be
> happy to have it.
>
The option is there, but it doesn't matter whether I use it or not.
And further tests showed that this only occurs with Espeak, e. g., I 
always hear "capital" when a word contains a capital letter, no matter 
what I've set up in SD.
I additionally have Voxin installed, and with this synth everything 
works as expected.
I'm no scripter, so I don't know what exactly to do. I think the first 
step should be to figure out why this behavior occurs.
Hermann