[Kde-accessibility] KTTS News

[Gary Cramblitt]

On Friday 28 January 2005 01:18 pm, Mikolaj Machowski wrote:

> > > Added to english string replacer 'Word' BTW 'by the way' and voice
> > > still reads it as 'bee tee dabl:u'.

You added BTW to the String Replacer (English) filter but your default 
(topmost) Talker is Polish Festival, so unless you are somehow telling KTTSD 
that your text is English, KTTS is assuming the text is Polish.  Therefore 
the String Replacer (English) filter doesn't apply itself.  Either remove the 
"Language is" from the String Replacer (English) filter, or add BTW to the 
String Replacer (Polish) filter.

> > > 'Polish replacements' also doesn't work.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<wordlist>
 ...
 <word>
  <type>Word</type>
  <match><![CDATA[(]]></match>
  <subst><![CDATA[ ]]></subst>
 </word>
 <word>
  <type>Word</type>
  <match><![CDATA[)]]></match>
  <subst><![CDATA[ ]]></subst>
 </word>
</wordlist>

These should be Regular Expressions, i.e. check the Regular Expression radio 
button in the config dialog for each word.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<wordlist>
 ...
 <name>String Replacer (Polish)</name>
 <language-code>pl</language-code>
 <word>
  <type>RegExp</type>
  <match><![CDATA[\(]]></match>
  <subst><![CDATA[ ]]></subst>
 </word>
 <word>
  <type>RegExp</type>
  <match><![CDATA[\)]]></match>
  <subst><![CDATA[ ]]></subst>
 </word>
</wordlist>

"Word" type filters are internally implemented as regular expressions of the 
form \bword\b, which means that the left and right parens would have to have 
word boundaries (spaces) on either side for them to be matched.  Also note 
the backslashes I added.

You didn't include { and }.  Was that on purpose?

Hopefully, once I've documented the use of filters in the Handbook, this will 
be less confusing.

-- 
Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
KDE Text-to-Speech Maintainer
http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php