Reading without punctuation

[Vitezslav Svoboda]

I use SVOX to read flashcards on my travels (automode). Everything is
OK, but my voice (US English Grace) reads punctuation (comma,slash,dot
etc). For example simple text "They´re all well, thank you." reads:
They apostrophe re all well comma thank you dot. Don't you know how
to treat?

[Nicolas Raoul]

Hi Vitezslav,

Could you please give us a list of Android apps that do not read the
punctuation with SVOX?
Preferably open source apps, so that we can check how they do.
I will help us a lot to solve this problem :-)

Thanks for your feedback!
Nicolas Raoul

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[nobnago]

we strip the text of all html-stuff. So we just need to strip all
punktuation marks too... Maybe replace them with spaces to prevent
outcomes like "theyre"?

[Nicolas Raoul]

It could be a solution indeed.

When searching I have seen that SVOX is good at modifying its tone
according to punctuation, for instance make a small stop after a
comma, etc.
So maybe it is a SVOX general option or some argument we need to
somehow pass to SVOX?

Anyone knows an open source app that plays punctuation nicely?

Cheers!
Nicolas Raoul

[edawdler]

Hi Nicolas,

> Anyone knows an open source app that plays punctuation nicely?

FBReader + FBReader TTS Plugin (both free) play punctuation nicely
with my Loquendo Suthan

PS:
I have another slightly annoying issue with TTS. The engine always
reads tags when they are displayed on the sreen as {{tags}}
Could you, please, think of writing an exception for user and
technical tags it in a future release?

[Nicolas Raoul]

Hi edawdler,

FBReader is open source. We should spy their TTS code and steal it!

I created an issue for the other issue you reported:
http://code.google.com/p/ankidroid/issues/detail?id=906

Thanks for helping make AnkiDroid better!
Nicolas Raoul

[Nicolas Raoul]

Apparently there was no issue for the punctuation problem, here it is:
http://code.google.com/p/ankidroid/issues/detail?id=907

Nicolas Raoul