Alex,
That's exactly how you fix the issue. By default, Apple has put that exact
entry you mentioned in the dictionary. Unfortunately, mine somehow got
wiped. Again, as I said this morning, I got it fixed, I think, but man!
that was the strangest thing I've ever seen! I wonder what the heck made
that happen to start with!
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Hall" <mehg...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: Wickedly! strange problem with symbol pronunciation
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.
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