GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 567143
When I using Pidgin with Orca, the smiley and other symbols are not presented.
Last modified: 2018-02-08 12:56:57 UTC
Please describe the problem: Dear Developers! When I using Pidgin with Orca and I writing or get a message and the message contains simbols, the simbols are not spokened. For example: :-) (smiley) :-( etc. So, Orca not spokened the :-) or :-( words. Possible doing human readable simbols list? This problem not big important problem, I know you have bigger work another bugs. If you tell me what script need modification, I trying doing this feature. Thanks, Attila Steps to reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information:
Hi Attila: One way to do this might be to add pronunciations for the smiley strings, but I think there's going to be some odd interaction between the pronunciation table and the verbalized punctuation stuff. If you want to hack in this space, you might start looking at gnomespeechfactory.py:__speak. Will
I can't tell from the initial report whether or not Attila has set the smiley theme to "none" in Pidgin. This does at least allow Orca to read out the strings of chars e.g colon right bracket when there's a smiley, rather than not saying anything. I attempted to use the pronunciation dictionary to add entries for smileys but found that entries cannot be created for strings that begin with punctuation symbols such as smileys. Not an essential feature obviously but would be nice to be able to have the ability to have smileys spoken as they should be in instant messaging. Paul
Paul, I use Pidgin with default preferences. I look Will suggestion with gnomespeechfactory.py. Attila
*** Bug 568801 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
So, I'm not clear on what we're seeing from pidgen with the default config, do we get strings like ':)' or characters like uxxxx where xxx is the value for unicode smile character?x If we're getting a unicode smile character I say that this should be fixed in synths not orca, but if we want ;) to spoken differently than the punctuation that should be fixe in orca.