Re: Capital, Capital, Capital

On 27 Mar, Hynek Hanke <hankebrailcom.org> wrote:

> I don't know whether this kind of spelling is important
for
> accessibility and if it is worth any efforts now, but
I'm just
> trying to show that this is in principle not a
text-to-text
> thing. It can only be reduced to text-to-text in
exchange
> for a loss of possible quality.

If alpha,bravo,charlie spelling is done in the synthesizer,
then we
need a way to tell the synthesizer to speak the text in this
mode.  We
don't have this yet.

Once this is defined, then I can implement "military
spelling" in
eSpeak, and we can update eSpeak's dictionary files for each
language
to add the letter names (or it will default to English if
they are not
defined).

But this will only work with eSpeak, and not other
synthesizers, unless
they are also updated to use this new feature.  If not, then
a higher
level such as Speech Dispatcher or Orca will still need to
provide this
function. 

I still think this is a language-dependent, but not
synthesizer-dependent function.  This probably applies to
some other
text normatizations. It's certainly a higher level than
basic
text-to-speech generation, and this higher level can be
common across
different synthesizers.  Information need not be lost,
because the
higher-level processor can use the SSML <break> tag to
indicate pauses.
 
I am happy to implement military spelling in eSpeak, but
there is
little point unless it will be used, and with an agreed SSML
tag.

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