In other screen-readers, I took a big list of emoticons and just added them to the pronunciation dictionary. It was a little work, but easy . I was pleasantly surprised not to have to do so much of that with Alex and VO.
The funniest results I've had with adding manually were the names of the drives in windows. (C smile, D smile, etc), since I didn't feel like using them only in some applications and made them global. LOL I'm remembering the fun a friend and I used to have making Dectalk say odd stuff, but now, speech synths are hard to fool. Teresa On Nov 16, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Carolyn Haas wrote: > Hi Nic: > Well, I played with it for a while, and decided just a few were enough. Some > of the online listings could make one blush!:) > Anyhow, funny thing, I've never ever had Jaws do this, so if they're there, > they must not be ones that appear often. > Anyhow, it was a fun toy for a bit. > On Nov 16, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> Or, you could find an online listing. I know there are lots of those, and >> even emoticons that you've never even heard of. The only issue is that some >> applications write smiley as :-), and other write it as :). I realize >> VoiceOver will pronounce both of these, however, but that's just an example. >> That requires more pronunciations added, but it's a fun time waster. I >> suppose it may come in handy if someone is mad at you, but you don't know >> what the angry smiley looks like. >> >> Regards, >> Nic >> GoogleTalk: chojiro1...@gmail.com >> Facebook >> Twitter >> Skype: Kvalme >> MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk >> Yahoo! Messenger: cin368 >> AIM: cincinster >> >> On Nov 16, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Daniel Rowe wrote: >> >>> Hi. >>> Jaws does actually have quite a few emoticons and abbreviations in the >>> dictionary manager file for windows live messenger, so you could use that >>> to find out what they are and add them to VO's pronunciation dictionary if >>> you're so inclined. >>> >>> Dannie >>> >>> On 15 Nov 2010, at 21:41, Carolyn Haas wrote: >>> >>>> Hi everyone: >>>> Ok, I have always been intrigued by the idea of emoticons, and I was just >>>> blown away when I first heard Alex read the smiley emoticon. Well, of >>>> course there are tons of these. But, as a blind person, I never had a >>>> clue about how they were represented, nor did I care. But, with Vo making >>>> me laugh every time I encountered a smiley, I finally broke down and had >>>> to find out how to teach him some new ones. >>>> So, I found a list of emoticons, and interacted with the text to learn how >>>> differing ones are made. Perhaps I have too much time on my hands, but >>>> I've had a great time discovering the kinds of things, (some naughty and >>>> some nice) that people can make out of simple text characters. >>>> What we did today in class was to go into VO Utilities, speech and >>>> pronunciation where you can add new ones. Interesting, unless Alex is set >>>> to recognize them, a blind user would never know they're even there! So, >>>> someone could send some very interesting messages and we'd be none the >>>> wiser.:( >>>> >>>> I don't know if Jaws has this capability, but I've never had my pc throw >>>> smileys or other text-based representations at me in this way. So, I >>>> thought others might appreciate this as well. >>>> It would be interesting >>>> to see if others are using others besides smiley and frown. >>>> >>>> CarolynCarolyn Haas >>>> chaas0...@gmail.com >>>> When you come to a fork in the road, >>>> It's time to eat. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> > > Carolyn Haas > chaas0...@gmail.com > When you come to a fork in the road, > It's time to eat. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
