Re: speakup direct option?

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt@csir.co.za>]

I am the maintainer of the Espeak Afrikaans voice and sometimes use the 
voice myself.
Here is some info on the machine I have tested on.
Please advise on how I should test?
Script started on Fri 29 May 2009 15:44:24 SAST
root@bid:~# echo $LANG
en_ZA.UTF-8
root@bid:~# cd /sys/modules\b^[[K/speaku\ap/parameters/
root@bid:/sys/module/speakup/parameters# ls
^[[00m^[[00mattrib_bleep^[[00m  ^[[00mchartab^[[00m      ^[[00mfull_time^[[00m     ^[[00mpunc_all^[[00m    ^[[00mreading_punc^[[00m  ^[[00msynth_direct^[[00m
^[[00mbell_pos^[[00m      ^[[00mcursor_time^[[00m  ^[[00mjiffy_delta^[[00m   ^[[00mpunc_level^[[00m  ^[[00mrepeats^[[00m       ^[[00mtone^[[00m
^[[00mbleeps^[[00m        ^[[00mdelay_time^[[00m   ^[[00mkey_echo^[[00m      ^[[00mpunc_most^[[00m   ^[[00msay_control^[[00m   ^[[00mtrigger_time^[[00m
^[[00mbleep_time^[[00m    ^[[00mdelimiters^[[00m   ^[[00mkeymap^[[00m        ^[[00mpunc_some^[[00m   ^[[00msay_word_ctl^[[00m  ^[[00mversion^[[00m
^[[00mcaps_start^[[00m    ^[[00mdirect^[[00m       ^[[00mlang^[[00m          ^[[00mpunct^[[00m       ^[[00msilent^[[00m        ^[[00mvoice^[[00m
^[[00mcaps_stop^[[00m     ^[[00mex_num^[[00m       ^[[00mno_interrupt^[[00m  ^[[00mquiet^[[00m       ^[[00mspell_delay^[[00m   ^[[00mvol^[[00m
^[[00mcharacters^[[00m    ^[[00mfreq^[[00m         ^[[00mpitch^[[00m         ^[[00mrate^[[00m        ^[[00msynth^[[00m
^[[mroot@bid:/sys/module/speakup/parameters# cat version
Speakup version 3.0.3
soft synthesizer driver version 2.4

root@bid:/sys/module/speakup/parameters# cat lang
0

root@bid:/sys/module/speakup/parameters# exit
exit

Script done on Fri 29 May 2009 15:46:26 SAST
Linux bid 2.6.27-8-eeepc #1 SMP Sun Nov 16 12:02:12 MST 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
Regards, Willem

On Fri, 29 May 2009, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> The direct option is supposed to allow a softsynth like espeakup
> handle special characters and individual characters rather than
> attempting to do it uniformly like we've been doing in speakup for
> many years.
> 
> We have been talking about it on-and-off for a while now on the irc
> channel and decided it needs testing so we can get the kinks worked
> out for languages other than English.
> 
> For characters such as umlauts and other accents you would need to
> have the appropriate utf-8 character set loaded into the kernel.  If
> you have than thank you for the apraisal.  We realize it still needs
> work but without folks trying it we can't fix it.  Both William Hubbs
> and I are native English speakers and although I speak a little German
> I've not really played with getting my softsynth to use it so we
> really need patient help from speakers of other languages.
>   Kirk
> --
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> e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
> phone: (519) 661-3061
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