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punctuation spoken with a pause and echo
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Jan Buchal |
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punctuation spoken with a pause and echo |
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Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:39:20 +0100 |
>>>>> "MS" == Mitchell Smith <mjsotn at gmail.com> writes:
MS> Hi, I think this might be PulseAudio related, as I have disabled
MS> PulseAudio on my Ubuntu system and I do not experience this
MS> behaviour.
Yes, pulseaudio has still problem with the latency. It is still in the
development. From this reason is pulseaudio for accessibility not
recommended.
MS> In relation to the punctuation, that is speech engine specific,
MS> I believe that by default ESpeak will say "stroke" for a slash,
MS> if you switch to another engine such as Flite for example, this
MS> does not happen.
MS> I think when using gnome-speech, it compensates for these
MS> differences by using it's own translations before sending the
MS> text off to the TTS engine.
Yes. We believe that punctuation is task for TTS system. Today's status
is a big hack.
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