When I type a character like left paren, the Espeak TTS server says "left `p1 paren". Emacspeak sends "left[*]paren" to the tts_say procedure, which translates [*] to `p1. But the string `p1 isn't special to Espeak. I'm guessing that Outloud renders it as a pause. Here's my patch to translate [*] to space. -- Chris
Index: servers/espeak
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--- servers/espeak	(revision 5900)
+++ servers/espeak	(working copy)
@@ -250,7 +250,9 @@
     set la $langcode(current)
 
     set prefix "<voice xml:lang=\"$la\" gender=\"male\" variant=\"1\"><prosody rate=\"[convert_speech_rate $r]\">"
-    regsub -all {\[\*\]} $text { `p1 } text 
+    # CMB change: ESpeak doesn't treat `p1 as a pause.  I'm guessing this
+    # is Outloud's behavior?  Replace [*] with a single space.
+    regsub -all {\[\*\]} $text { } text 
     synth " $prefix $text"
     service
     return ""
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