Ok, I tried turning off Smart Quotes directly in Pages itself through the options you gave. Smart Quotes was checked. Unfortunately, after unchecking it and my punctuation level being set to most I read a line or two that contained quotes but Voiceover still wouldn't read them out to me.
So, what would you advise me I do next. Pardon my ignorance, but what are smart quotes anyway? If it helps I used shift and the key two letters to right of the L key. On 13 Jul 2014, at 21:16, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
