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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: VoiceBox script punctuationRe: VoiceBox script punctuation
From: Brian Wolven <brian.wolven_at_verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:56:43 -0500 Brian Wolven wrote: > Maynframe wrote: > >> Hi, listers, >> >> The VoiceBox script worked beautifully. My question is there a way to >> have >> dashes and underscores silenced? Many of my song title words are >> separated >> by dashes or underscores rather than spaces and it gets a little >> annoying to >> hear: >> A underscore Hard underscore Rain's underscore A underscore Gonna >> underscore >> Fall.mp3 > > > I can revise the script to remove some (or all) punctuation from the > voiced names, replacing it with spaces in the voiced text strings. > AFAICT (based on my quick test), underscores are the only things that > the MS speech synthesizer will actually say out loud. Periods, commas, > question marks, semicolons and dashes just produce a pause (if anything > at all) in the speech. I take that back - if the punctuation marks are part of a continuous string of characters - without white space - then they *are* spoken. If written in what would be a normal "sentence" format, then they are silent. _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2005-02-28 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |