In Pages, go to the Edit menu, open the Substitutions submenu, and see if the option is checked in there. Also, and I haven't tried this, but what if you pasted in a "fancy" quote when adding a new entry to VO's pronunciation dictionary, and set the pronunciation to quote? That may, but may not, get the marks to be spoken correctly. On Jul 13, 2014, at 4:12 PM, Daniel McGee <danielmcgee...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex, I did read my own message with the mail app and it did read the > quotes out to me. With my puntuaion level set to most. > > What is this smart quote thing that you mentioned? Maybe I can take a look > and turn it off to see if that will work with Pages. > If you provide me with directions on how to do this, then I can try it and > report back to you if it worked or not. > > > On 13 Jul 2014, at 20:21, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > >> Read your own message with punctuation set to most, and see if you hear the >> quotes. I did, and my level is at most. What I'm trying to work out is if >> this is specific to Pages somehow, or if it has to do with a substitution. >> I've noticed that when Smart Quotes is on, replacing normal quotes with >> those fancy opening/closing ones, the fancy ones are not spoken no matter >> what. Disabling this and using normal quotes eliminates the problem. >> On Jul 13, 2014, at 3:06 PM, Daniel McGee <danielmcgee...@googlemail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi guys, using Pages 5.2 on the Mac and having my punctuation 1st set to >>> some then tested again with most, again, which also failed. >>> Is it possible to get Voiceover announce quotes when someone is speaking? >>> For example. >>> >>> James: "Hello, nice weather today isn't." >>> Jill: "Indeed it certainly is." >>> >>> Note that the quotes are not announced before and after the person has >>> spoken. >>> >>> Idealy, with punctuation set to most, I'd like to at least what one hears >>> say with Jaws and with most being set, quote marks are usually announced by >>> default with this punctuation setting. >>> >>> Any help with this would be really appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Daniel >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex Hall >> mehg...@icloud.com >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
