Before saying more on this it may be worth reading the speechd-up documentation http://cvs.freebsoft.org/doc/speechd-up/. The problems page may describe what's going on better. I also will have a good read of it before saying more.
I don't know about the possibility of posting to the speakup list without being subscribed, I guess probably not as it has some stupid limitations.
Unless there is anything to do in GRML's swspeak I would suggest possibly moving this to the speakup list.
Michael Whapples On 28/05/09 13:02, Hermann wrote:
On 28.05.2009 at 13:38:56 Michael Whapplesmwhapples@aim.com wrote: [...]
Regarding the replacing of speakup's tables, I thought speechd-up did that, may be I am thinking of 0.4, have you tried updating speechd-up to that (it would require compiling it from source as GRML comes with speechd-up 0.3).
I tried both versions, but the same result: In general, when Speechd-up is used, the German text is spoken well, except the punctuation chars and the numbers, and with the two letters "a" and "z", the latter you mentioned. When moving the cursor char by char, those strange char naming comes up, due to the fact, that chars of>127 are not recognized. The difference to Espeakup is, that, out of the box, it doesn't work at all in German, and when the characters file is adjusted, it spells right when moving cursor-left-right, but it doesn't read the umlauts when reading German text. This all is fixed for Espeak since 0.6 together with the modified characters file. So my conclusion is, that the main issue is in Speakup, since everything works well when I use built-in speech support of Brltty or Suse-Blinux. I hope I could clarify things a bit. Is it possible to write to the Speakup list when one is not subscribed? Because I didn't use Speakup for a while, I left the list. Hermann