Espeak produces an echo when punctuation is activated

[hermann]

am Mi 05. M?r 2008 um 14:24:49 schrieb Jonathan Duddington <jsd at clara.co.uk>:
> > just upgraded Espeak to 1.32, and I had to realize, that Espeak
> > produces an echo when I activate the speaking of punctuation.
> 
> Yes, this is intentional. 
> 
> The idea is that when speaking text with punctuation turned on, it
> speaks the names of the punctuation symbols with a different sounding
> voice, in order to distinguish "comma" meaning the symbol from the word
> "comma" which appears in the text.
> 
> Is this good or bad?
 
In my view it is bad, but perhaps we wait till we have more feedback on 
this.
Hermann