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

On 23 Apr 2007  David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <061ceed64e.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dr Peter Young
> <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>>I've just discovered that the Speech applet has problems with any of
>>the f-ligature characters. I couldn't make out quite what it was
>>pronouncing as it was "talking" quite quickly, but it certainly wasn't
>>"fi", fl", "ff" and so on.
> 
> If you are prepared to play with OP script files that should be easy
> enough to fix.

Not for me, alas!

> Looking at the code OP seems to frame up words on the basis of
> characters being in the ASCII ranges i.e. A to Z, a to z and 0..9 so
> that would need extending - trivial.

For some :-)

> Another point is does Speech understand ligatures? for that matter does
> it understand characters outside the range above?

A quick test in a taskwindow would seem to suggest it doesn't, so the 
problem isn't with OPro, I think. Thanks for the helpful message, 
though. As I said, it isn't really a major problem.

With best wishes,

Peter.

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