punctuation spoken with a pause and echo

[Mitchell Smith]

Hi,

I think this might be PulseAudio related, as I have disabled PulseAudio on 
my Ubuntu system and I do not experience this behaviour.

In relation to the punctuation, that is speech engine specific, I believe 
that by default ESpeak will say "stroke" for a slash, if you switch to 
another engine such as Flite for example, this does not happen.

I think when using gnome-speech, it compensates for these differences by 
using it's own translations before sending the text off to the TTS engine.

I hope this helps.

Mitch

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andre Nuno Soares" <address@hidden>
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To: <speechd at lists.freebsoft.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:58 AM
Subject: punctuation spoken with a pause and echo


> Hello all,
>
> When I switch Orca from gnome-speech to speech-dispatcher the
> punctuation gets spoken with a noticeable pause before and after and an
> echoing sound.
>
> This happens in most applications, but not in Firefox.
>
> I'm using SD with PulseAudio, starting SD and PA in Gnome.
>
>
> The pause is a real problem, as it makes everything sluggish.
> Is there a way to avoid this? Is it a pulseaudio problem?
>
> I'm using Ubuntu 8.10, Gnome and Orca 2.24.1, PulseAudio 0.9.10 and
> Speech-Dispatcher 0.6.7
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Andr?
> PS: I've also noticed that, although I use espeak with both speech
> systems, the names for the punctuation change.
> Example: / is "slash" with gnome-speech and "stroke" with SD, @ is "at"
> with the first, and "at sign" with the later, etc, etc.
>
>
>
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