Re: [orca-list] orca+voxin says backquote pf zero

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi

That's it's abbreviations dictionary, which you can turn off in the 
settings in /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/ibmtts.conf. To be honest, 
I'd recommend people either use espeak, yes I know it's robotic and all, 
but it doesn't have these problems. On the other hand, chrys 87 is 
talking about reverse engineering and open sourcing ibmtts, if he can 
figure out how it processes text. If that happens I'll be the first to 
back it and recommend it's use, but right now i just can't recommend it. 
That being said, your problem is a problem with  eloquence, ibmtts, 
whatever, not orca. I think that problem is caused by voxin's 
punctuation filter, but I don't know anything more than that. I'm 
guessing purely because pf equals punctuation filter, I don't have any 
proof.

Thanks

KENDELL Clark



On 11/29/2016 1:24 AM, Janina Sajka via orca-list wrote:
> I don't have voxin and I'm not familiar with its particular build, or
> its backend business arrangements. I would expect it relies on ibmtts,
> so may be addressable via the api that was released a decade ago:
>
> http://ibmtts-sdk.sourceforge.net/
>
> Regretably, there are builtin pronunciations that grow ever more amusing
> with time in this engine. I say amusing with tongue in cheek, as they're
> actually quite annoying in reality. Some of my favorites:
>
> dem becomes Deutsche Marks
> bsd becomes Bahamian Dollars.
> cd becomes Candellas
>
> Hope the above pointer helps, John!
>
> Janina
>
> John G Heim writes:
> > I recently configured orca to speak via IBM TTS voxin. BBut it frequently
> > starts a phrase by saying backquote p f zero. Sometimes it says backquote p
> > f one. Is there any way to get it to stop doing that?
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