Read to me mode corrupts text if punctuation is present

[barjac]

I think the subject says it all.
If e.g.
hello. testing
is entered in the text window, on playback the word hello is inserted replacing the ".", leaving :-
hellohello testing
on the screen.

[hardaker]

Yes, I agree. I think the internal word selection is failing at that point and I need to write my own or figure out how to fix Qt's. I'll look into doing that, thanks for reporting it.

[barjac]

I am attempting to update our package for the new Mageia 9 release after seeing recent updates to cutecw.
However 2.0 seems even worse than it was ten years ago! :(

In 'Read to me' mode:
Play "cat dog horse sheep" and the second letter is random z,f,l.... all letters not in the text. If more words are added then the text changes on playback. Very broken.

The sound quality is also poor, as it seems to have poor envelope shaping.

Setting 20wpm sounds closer to 30wpm, or am I out of practice?

This is in Mageia Cauldron (dev) using qt6 and pipewire-pulseaudio.

[baz@jackodesktop ~]$ pactl info
Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 35
Server Protocol Version: 35
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 4303
Tile Size: 65472
User Name: baz
Host Name: jackodesktop
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.51)
Server Version: 15.0.0
Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Default Source: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Cookie: 9b66:f9b9

[hardaker]

FYI, I agree the rate may be too fast -- i thought it was too and wondered if it was just me out of practice but I think we're both right. I created #13 to track that.

[hardaker]

I agree that the read-to-me mode is broken (and was before the audio fix -- that is unrelated).

Can you verify that the recognition mode works for you though? IE, I'm trying to isolate/separate audio issues from other issues (and the audio support in Qt had a major overhaul and required figuring out the new APIs).

[hardaker]

current main should at least read text properly (with punctuation), but no longer supports reading each word multiple times. I'll have to get back to fix that but this should be better at least.