From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.122]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id B511110A81 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:40:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from linux1.localdomain ([66.25.35.110]) by cdptpa-omta04.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090728024026313.UWIZ29458@cdptpa-omta04.mail.rr.com> for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:40:26 +0000 Received: by linux1.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D327A43C03; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:40:25 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:40:25 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: problems with newer Speakup Message-ID: <20090728024025.GA17750@linux1> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20090727021655.SIQS4885.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:40:26 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:17:41PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote: > Yep, it is working properly now. Thanks for the quick fix. Now, do you > have any idea why the Dectalk splits contractions? For example, when > Speakup sees the word "don't," the Dectalk pronounces it "don t." It's as > if the apostrophe were being treated as a space. This is Speakup-specific, > since this never happens if I echo a contraction to > /sys/accessibility/speakup/synth_direct. This has been a problem with the > Dectalk drivers since day one. Adam, I believe I found this, There was a flag that was set in the driver that was having speakup insert a space when sending to the synthesizer after a punctuation symbol. I'm not sure why this was there unless it had to do with older dectalks. It has been removed. It has been removed. Can you test again? Thanks, William -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpuZRkACgkQblQW9DDEZThK3wCgjmiW4rRzzM+S5GaWlss5F608 0aYAoIjz9DCeSrqm33E0Aztr5E/hGLAc =JplQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----