[Nvda-dev] [NVDA] #270: Special method in synthdriver to speak character

[lex at onm.su]

Hi Jonathan.

> I'm still not certain, but I think you mean that when you ask eSpeak to
> say "a" as a character (using SSML), it says [eI] (as in "say")
> correctly.  But when you want to speak individual words, it says the
> single word "a" as [eI] (as in "say") not as [a] (as in "apple") or
> [a2] (as in "about").

Certainly.

> I think this is not a problem.  In normal spoken English (at least in
> British English, and I think also in American English), [eI] is OK as
> an emphatic form of the word "a".
Currently, british english espeak voice pronounces "a" as [eI] 
anywhere. "this is [eI] test". but in en-us it makes article "a" as 
[a], which is correct for me. So My request can espeak (at least voice 
en-us) makes a single "a" as [a], if it is outside the tag <spell>?

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regards,
  Lex                          mailto:lex at onm.su