3.4 Reading Punctuation Characters

Through the punctuation modes, punctuation.scm, you can force Festival to speak all punctuation characters. Since the default English voices don't have defined pronunciation of some punctuation characters, it is provided through the following variable:

punctuation-pronunciation

Alist of punctuation characters and their word forms. Each entry in the list is of the form ("character" "word" ..., where character is the pronounced character and words are the words of its pronunciation. Please note you must put each word inside separate double quotes. Example entry:

("!" "exclamation" "mark")

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