How about a braille display? A bit expensive but far quicker and more accurate for such high end tasks. Unless you have a sensitivity issue this is probably the way to go.
Best, Erik Burggraaf Introducing Ebony Consulting business card transcription service, starting at $0.45 per card or $35 per hundred cards. Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2013-01-05, at 3:58 AM, Yuma Antoine Decaux <jamy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I > m trying to figure out a setting on voice over to allow certain punctuation > symbols to be announced and others not. Ok, this seems like an impossibility, > but hear me out: > > there are many symbols which voice over does not read unless you go character > by character, and those aren't only commas, dots or colons when attached to > words. Math symbols, greek symbols and other types fall into the same > category. This is no good when reading maths statistics or physics, and i'm > desperately trying to figure out a solution. > > I've tried using voice over's text attribute modifier so as to change how > voice over speaks an item. say for example the alfa symbol. normally you > wouldn't hear anything, but changing the symbol to simply alfa will declare > it. But only declare it if the speak all punctuation is selected in the > verbosity levels. > > If no-one has a solution to this, i might take it to apple engineers to try > to find us one as it seems all screen readers have the same issue, namely > that many ansillary symbols or uncommon characters are recognized as > punctuation and not actual characters, giving a hard time actually > identifying them in text, or altogether breaking the flow of a passage when > reading books or text books. > > Any help or suggestions greatly apreciated. > > Best regards, > > Yuma > > > > <zato1.jpg> > > > > "Light has no value without darkness" > Mob: +642102277190 > Skype: Shainobi1 > twitter: http://www.twitter.com/triple7 > > This message is protected by article 4-210 of a certain book of laws but you > don't have to worry about privacy issues if you are the intended recipient. > However, if any freakish circumstance such as ip sniffing, honey pot open > relay servers or an honest mistake caused a transmission error, please advise > the sender and throw your laptop into a bubble bath to avoid all illicit data > retention. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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.
