Bug#492671: speech-dispatcher: spd-say spelling with festival

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Package: speech-dispatcher
Version: 0.6.7~rc1-1
Severity: normal

I have configured speech-dispatcher for use with festival but when I
run:
spd-say -m none -s "some message"
The audio comes out as something like "speak-some message-speak"
Unfortunately these are the punctuation and spelling settings that
Mumble voice chat has hard coded in which makes the text-to-voice
feature rather unuseable.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (700, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.8 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages speech-dispatcher depends on:
ii adduser 3.108 add and remove users and groups
ii libasound2 1.0.16-2 ALSA library
ii libaudio2 1.9.1-4 Network Audio System - shared libr
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdotconf1.0 1.0.13-2 Configuration file parser library
ii libespeak1 1.37-1 A multi-lingual software speech sy
ii libflite1 1.2-release-2.2 a small run-time speech synthesis
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.4-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libpulse0 0.9.10-2 PulseAudio client libraries
ii libspeechd2 0.6.7~rc1-1 Speech Dispatcher: Shared librarie
ii lsb-base 3.2-12 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

speech-dispatcher recommends no packages.

Versions of packages speech-dispatcher suggests:
pn speech-dispatcher-doc-cs <none> (no description available)
ii speech-dispatcher-festival 0.6.7~rc1-1 Festival support for Speech Dispat

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[Milan Zamazal]

>>>>> "r" == redomen <red...@charterinternet.com> writes:

r> I have configured speech-dispatcher for use with festival but
r> when I run: spd-say -m none -s "some message" The audio comes out
r> as something like "speak-some message-speak"

This is a known bug that has been present in Speech Dispatcher for
several years. Simply spelling of text with Festival doesn't work.
As a partial work around you can make your application / screen reader
to use the Speech Dispatcher character reading function (on each of the
characters of the given piece of text) instead of the spelling function.
But this way the punctuation settings don't apply.

I'll ask upstream about status of the bug.

Thanks for the report.

Regards,

Milan Zamazal