Espeak produces an echo when punctuation is activated

[Jonathan Duddington]

On 05 Mar, Hermann <meinelisten at onlinehome.de> wrote:

> 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?

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