To be honest I have not had time to test the spell checker myself so it would be interesting to hear from some one who uses emacs speak via oralux to see if they have the same problem. Also does the control - e, A, repeat all the spelling choices?
Thanks,
Nigel
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kalyan Mukherjea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [Oralux] I spell, you spell, we all spell
Hello Nigel, Are you using a hardware speech synthesizer? I use Emacspeak all the time (though not necessarily via Oralux) and my experience with Ispell is quite different from what seems to be yours or what the Emacspeak manual suggests.
The Emacspeak info document says:
The spell checking interface on the Emacspeak desktop is speech-enabled to provide fluent auditory feedback. The visual interface parallels that described above and is provided by package `ispell' which is part of the standard Emacs distribution. Emacspeak provides a spoken prompt that is composed of the line containing the possibly erroneous word (which is aurally highlighted to set it apart from the rest of the text on that line) and the available corrections. Each correction is prefixed with a number that the user can use to select it. Once a correction is selected, the interaction continues with the query and replace interaction described earlier. The speech interface to the spell checker is as fluent as the
But when I run ispell and it finds an error, the buffer splits in two with the possible corrections on the upper part but these choices are not spoken out. I discovered this quite recently --- till now my vision was not so bad and I would unconciously read the choices and fill in the appropriate prefix. I have a feeling this is caused by one or both of two possible reasons:
1. I am using a software speech synthesizer: flite + eflite.
2. I am using a very old Emacspeak version, v.17.0
If you are getting spellings read out by emacspeak even with a software synth. then clearly an upgrade should take care of my problem. Incidentally, emacspeak has a command for reading out the last message again: C-e A is bound to the function "emacspeak-appt-repeat-announcement" , though I am not sure it would do what you want.
Cheers. Kalyan
Nigel writes:
>
> A package called I spell is included with Emacs in Oralux. I have > suggested
> a key to reread the last item that was read. So if you listened to the
> spelling choices and were still not sure which one to pick you could > press a
> key and listen again.
>
> This would also work for other keys like read line or sentance.
> What do you all think?
>
> Thanks,
> Nigel
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