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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On further testing I find that anything with double
quotes fails:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>Speaker man say: '"Hello," she
said.'.</EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></EM> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Numbers blow it up, even single
digits.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>Speaker man say: '7'.</EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The sequence <EM>space, carrage-return, space
</EM>blows it up even in the middle of some text.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There are probably many other bugs.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's probably best to test the program by reading
articles. If it can read a few web sites then its probably
robust.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Boris.Gaertner@gmx.net href="mailto:Boris.Gaertner@gmx.net">Boris
Gaertner</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org
href="mailto:squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org">The general-purpose Squeak
developers list</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, August 21, 2004 9:20
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Text to speech complaint and
Hello everyone</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>From: Joshua Scholar <A
href="mailto:jscholar@access4less.net">jscholar@access4less.net</A>
wrote:<BR><BR>> I notice that the text to speech system is so incomplete
that it blows up<BR>when<BR>> handed any text that has punctuation in
it.<BR><BR>Can you please give us an example text that causes problems?<BR>I
just tried some examples with punctuation (in Squeak 3.7 gamma1)<BR>and they
all worked. (As a starting point I used the examples in the<BR>class protocol
of class Speaker)<BR><BR>> While I am a programmer, I'm new to
Smalltalk, so it may be a while before<BR>> I'm submitting fixes myself...
How does that work anyway?<BR>You send a mail with a subject line that begins
with<BR> [FIX]<BR>to this list. The subject should also give a short
description<BR>of the fix. For details about tags that we use on this list,
you<BR>may wish to read this page:<BR><A
href="http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1962">http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1962</A><BR><BR>Fixes
are reviewed by volunteers and finally accepted for<BR>inclusion into the
image. Details are described at page<BR><A
href="http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3152">http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3152</A><BR><BR><BR>>
Is Squeak really open source?<BR>Yes, it is.<BR><BR>Greetings,
Boris<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>