[softwarelist] Re: OPro RISC OS speech applet oddity.

In message <4ed89150b1chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Chris Johnson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <4ed890598dchris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>    Chris Johnson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I was about to 'fix' the applet, which, as David has suggested,
>> should be trivial. However, I thought I would install the speak
>> module and speech applet to test the 'before' behaviour, and lo and
>> behold the fi and fl ligatures are spoken correctly. The version of
>> the speak module I am using is 2.18 (19 Feb 2003). Do different
>> versions of the speak module behave differently?
> 
> OK - it looks like v. 2 of the speak module did speak the ligatures,
> but I have just found v. 3.03 on my hard drive, and after installing
> that it doesn't.

This is not surprising because V3 is a complete rewrite and it is 
cross-platform. The codes for ligatures are RISC OS specific and 
outside the ISO Latin-1 range, so you are unlikely to have any luck 
with them in cross-platform software. The eSpeak documentation should 
really state in what encoding it expects its input.

Martin
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