[softwarelist] Re: OPro RISC OS speech applet oddity.
- From: Dr Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:49:47 +0100
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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