Re: Espeak NG ignores punctuation configuration?

[Matt Dizak]

Yep, I have the exact same problem, which is annoying considering I'm
a software engineer and need to hear my exclamation marks and other
things.  It's been happening ever since I upgraded to latest version
of Linux Mint, which is the equivalent of Ubuntu 22.04.

Haven't found a solution just yet, but looking forward to one.  Tried
modifying the punctuation_settings.py file within Orca, but that was a
no go.

Matt




On 11/5/22, Rastislav Kish <rastislav.kish@protonmail.com> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Ubuntu Mate 22.04 64-bit, Speech dispatcher 0.11.1-1ubuntu2, Orca 43.1.
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> I use punctuation level Some in Orca, and I'd like to configure some
> characters to be spoken in line by line navigation.
>
>
> I modify ~/.config/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-ng.conf.
>
> I suppose this is the configuration file being used, since when I modify
> the rate settings there and restart Orca with a delay longer than 5
> seconds, the changes get applied.
>
>
> I found:
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> # Characters to be spoken when punctuation setting is "some"
> # Encoding is UTF-8.
> EspeakPunctuationList "@+_"
>
>
> Which sounds like what I'm searching for, but even with the default
> setting, it doesn't seem to be applied.
>
> @ and + are spoken, that's fine. But the _ is not, even though it's listed.
>
> Also, there are special characters that are not a part of the list, but
> are still spoken, such as \.
>
>
> I have a feeling this used to work in the past, but some things have
> changed with the system upgrade.
>
> For example, for some reason, numbers containing a , like 1,234 are now
> spoken like 1 2 3 4.
>
> I think this also used to work.
>
>
> Do you have similar experience?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Best regards
>
>
> Rastislav
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