Re: [Emacspeak] Emacsvox with omnivox early use and thanks

[Bart Bunting <bart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the kind words. I’m glad Emacsvox and Omnivox have helped you keep using Emacs, and thanks for reporting the apostrophe issue. Describing what you hear is useful—you don’t need to submit a PR.

Your report prompted some work on punctuation handling. Org normally uses the “some” punctuation level, which leaves apostrophes within words unannounced. Curly apostrophes such as “’” also needed better handling in Omnivox.

I’ve now implemented configurable punctuation pronunciations in Omnivox, along with an Emacsvox interface to review and edit them. This lets you choose which characters are named at each punctuation level and what they are called, including straight and curly apostrophes.

The changes have passed automated checks and still need listening checks. I expect to release them in a day or two. I haven’t reproduced your exact setup, so I’d welcome your feedback once they’re available.

Thanks again for taking the time to write and feel free to report any
other issues you find.

Kind regards,

Bart

"Joe LUKE" (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:

> Hi there,
>
> I was using emacspeak for maybe 2 years and suddenly it stopped working for password prompts. I am on
> archlinux so I got 31.1 quickly and it hurt!
>
> I am not a developer but Codex is my friend and it found emacsvox/omnivox for me and this setup seems
> very good. A few subtle differences to adapt to but that’s it really,
>
> Thank you so much Bart for creating and maintaining the fork and thank you to any others who make this
> possible. Emacs/emacspeak is my daily driver so I was panicking quite a bit until Codex found Bart’s fork.
>
> The only oddity I have noticed is that emacsvox with omnivox and espeak-ng does not seem to read out
> apostrophes in org mode .
> That’s apostrophe a.k.a single quote i.e. this character “’”’"
>
> If that’s a bug I could ask codex to submit a PR but I’m out of my depth really other than to point it out.
>
> Warmest regards,
> Joe
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