From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fmailhost04.isp.att.net ([207.115.11.54]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1ITSML-00068B-00 for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:10:09 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.97] (adsl-155-204-14.mem.bellsouth.net[72.155.204.14]) by bellsouth.net (frfwmhc04) with SMTP id <20070907010938H0400bk5cce>; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 01:09:38 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [72.155.204.14] Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:09:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Adam Myrow To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: feature request In-Reply-To: <20070906164004.GI3343@implementation.labri.fr> Message-ID: References: <20070906163251.GA6180@grml> <20070906164004.GI3343@implementation.labri.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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, 07 Sep 2007 01:10:09 -0000 Actually, I've never had any problems with a hardware synthesizer. In my case, a Dectalk USB in serial mode emulating a Dectalk Express. It has its quirks, but spelling words is not one of them. So, I suspect the problem was more with software speech than hardware speech. I think software speech is more sensitive to timing, whereas with the Dectalk, all that is needed is to dump text at a serial port and let the synthesizer decide what to do with it.