I have no idea how you could fix this, but maybe you could trick it. What if you add the ampersand to your pronunciation dictionary and told it to be spoken as "and"? I know it is not an actual fix, but it will save you the annoyance of hearing the whole thing when vo runs across it. Also, and this is a long shot, if you use a voice other than Alex, have you re-downloaded the voice? Maybe some internal rule in the voice is broken. Try that, and try a few different voices, built into the mac and third-party, to see if it happens in all of them. On Apr 22, 2013, at 5:50 AM, Chris Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, I must honestly say: this has me very baffled. I was having lots of disk > permission problems so badly that Disk Utility couldn't even fix all of them. > So, I reformatted the partition, and reinstalled Mountain Lion from scratch, > then remigrated all of my stuff back over with migration Assistant. All was > working fine. I even managed to export my Voiceover settings from my mini by > openning the vo utility, and going to export on the file menu. Then I saved > the file on a flash drive, and then simply reimported it over on my macbook, > which saved me quite a bit of time. All was working great, until all of a > sudden, totally at random clearly out of the blue from what I can see, > Voiceover has all of a sudden, decided to start being an idiot by > mispronouncing the, and, symbol. On my mini, it just says, and, yet on the > macbook, all of a sudden it now is saying > ampersand instead. So, in system prefs, instead of date and time, I now > here: date > > ampersand time. This is becoming extremely annoying, not to mention! down > right wackidly bizarre! I've practically looked everywhere! I humanly > possibly can think to look. I've gone under the vo utility in speech on the > pronunciation tab, and there is nothing at all in the table. I made sure > there were no activities created that would be conflicting. there are > absolutely none. I restarted Voiceover with no luck, I looked under > verbosity in the Voiceover Utility, but see nothing. I further can confirm > this is not happenning just in system prefs either. It's happening system > wide. I went in and looked at my speech punctuation settings, and they're > set correctly on, some. I looked under language in system prefs, even though > United States English is the only locale I have installed, just to be sure. > On the text tab, I even hit the reset button, just to make absolutely certain > nothing went haywire on me. Everything looks perfectly fine. > > > > I dono what the hell to make a this! This is totally weird! What in the > heck've I missed! > > > > Chris. > > -- > 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. > > Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
