Re: [SpeechIO-28] /'s in Speechd.sub

["Eugene Y. Vasserman" <eugene@uranium.chem.umn.edu>]

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On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 01:54:40PM -0400, Darxus wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Posh Spice wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is it just me, or do lines in speechd.sub like:
> >         'd/l'=> 'download',
> > 
> > not actually work?
> 
> That's correct.  String substitution is currently only capable of
> replacing strings of all letters.  Since "/" is not a letter, string
> substitution would look as "d" & "l" as 2 different strings, and ignore
> the "/".
> 
> The current implimentation is done in what I consider a really
> clean/eligant/efficant way, using hash table lookups.  
> 
> To "fix" this problem, I believe I'd have to do it much less efficiently.
> Using a foreach & doing a regex replacement for every key in the hash on
> every line submitted to speechd. 
> 
> I can do this.  I suppose I should add a commandline flag/config file
> variable.  It's not like every PC that can handle festival/rsynth would
> have any problem w/ the CPU load.  
> 
> It's just the ineligance that bothers me :) 
> 
> Thanks for bringing this up.
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