Hi there! OK I use speak cap but whilst reading through this message I change it to change pitch! And I am getting the same thing as you the pitch does change but it still says Capital as well! I've not noticed this before! Colin
On 17 Apr 2013, at 23:47, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote: > Below is an email I sent to accessibil...@apple.com. They said they could not > reproduce the issue. I've replied with a more detailed explanation. But, in > case they continue to have difficulties, I thought I'd check with the list to > see if other people have this issue as well. > > Thanks in advance for any responses. > > Hi, > > In the Text tab of the Verbosity panel of VoiceOver Utility there is an > option to customise how VoiceOver reads capital letters. Two of the most > relevant options are "change pitch" and "speak cap". However, when change > pitch is selected, VoiceOver will read a capital X as, "capital X" in a > higher than normal pitch. When speak cap is selected VoiceOver will read it > as, "cap capital X". In other words, VoiceOver says the word "capital" before > the letter regardless of which option is selected. > > I'm not sure if this is a bug, an oversight or a feature, but it would make > life much easier and more efficient if a user could choose whether VoiceOver > indicated a capital letter by either changing pitch or speaking the word > "capital" or "cap", but not both. Personally, I prefer VoiceOver to just > change pitch and not say anything additional, as additional words are less > efficient and waste time. So it would be great if one could stop VoiceOver > from saying "capital" before capital letters. > > Many thanks in advance for your time and consideration. > > Best, > > Nic > > -- > 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?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.