From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from apollo.csir.co.za (mx-4.csir.co.za [146.64.10.99]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0152110B9D for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 09:51:49 -0400 (EDT) X-CSIR-MailScanner-Watermark: 1244209894.26065@AwYTPw1rCzqq0pcV5qUJww Received: from localhost.localdomain ([146.64.19.125]) by apollo.csir.co.za (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n4TDpWdi019653 for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 15:51:33 +0200 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n4TDpI1t020644 for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 15:51:18 +0200 Received: from localhost (wvdwalt@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id n4TDpH2K020629 for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 15:51:18 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: wvdwalt owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 15:51:17 +0200 (SAST) From: Willem van der Walt X-X-Sender: wvdwalt@localhost.localdomain To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: speakup direct option? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0rc1 (apollo.csir.co.za [146.64.10.99]); Fri, 29 May 2009 15:51:33 +0200 (SAST) X-CSIR-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-CSIR-MailScanner-ID: n4TDpWdi019653 X-CSIR-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CSIR-MailScanner-From: wvdwalt@csir.co.za X-Spam-Status: No 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: Fri, 29 May 2009 13:51:53 -0000 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/speakup/parameters/ root@bid:/sys/module/speakup/parameters# ls attrib_bleep chartab full_time punc_all reading_punc synth_direct bell_pos cursor_time jiffy_delta punc_level repeats tone bleeps delay_time key_echo punc_most say_control trigger_time bleep_time delimiters keymap punc_some say_word_ctl version caps_start direct lang punct silent voice caps_stop ex_num no_interrupt quiet spell_delay vol characters freq pitch rate synth root@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 > -- > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 > _______________________________________________ > 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.