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 A2BE6C1A2ED for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 04:31:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([146.64.19.125]) by apollo.csir.co.za (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o628TJ2B013721 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:29:20 +0200 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o628TGeB030822 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:29:16 +0200 Received: from localhost (wvdwalt@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id o628TFGg030805 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:29:16 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: wvdwalt owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:29:15 +0200 (SAST) From: Willem van der Walt X-X-Sender: wvdwalt@localhost.localdomain To: speakup mailing list Subject: synth_direct usage question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.5 (apollo.csir.co.za [146.64.10.99]); Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:29:20 +0200 (SAST) X-CSIR-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-CSIR-MailScanner-ID: o628TJ2B013721 X-CSIR-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CSIR-MailScanner-SpamScore: s X-CSIR-MailScanner-From: wvdwalt@csir.co.za X-CSIR-MailScanner-Watermark: 1278664161.24712@UPIZ/PG1T4zJleF5KpdYaw X-Spam-Status: No X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 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, 02 Jul 2010 08:31:09 -0000 Good day, I were under the impression that I can echo a 1 to the synth_direct ebntry in the /sys/accessibility/speakup directory to tell speakup to just pass the punct/special chars directly to the synthesizer. When I did that, it spoke the one and I also saw that the "file" has -w- -w- -w- permitions, , write-only. This with openttsd and ospeakup running, not that that should be relevant. I obviously got the use of synth_direct wrong, could someone please correct me in how I should go about in doing what I want? I am working on northern sotho for espeak, a language that has quite a number of chars above decimal code 128 and I need to get them spoken in speakup. This can also be terminal settings, but sometimes, I get when the char is dec 197, so its the hex code for the character and not the symbol that I here. Any ideas? TIA, Willem -- 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.