In Spanish I do this by accentuating the vowel on the syllable that must be pronounced with a stronger tone. In Spanish this always works, because Spanish general accentuation rules are strict and well defined. In English this would seem harder because there are no accented vowels natively, but perhaps Eloquence might recognize the acute accent used in Spanish. Although English keyboard layouts have no key for the acute accent, you can switch to the US International keyboard layout (press ALT+SHIFT until JAWS says US International, except if you have removed this layout from your Windows regional and Language Options in Control Panel or the Windows 10 Settings app, but by default English Windows installations include this layout available to use) and easily insert the accented vowel you want by pressing AltGr+vowel. AltGr is the ALT key to the right of the SPACEBAR; in US layout this is identical to the left ALT key, but in most other keyboard layouts this key allows inserting special characters.
Hope you can find a suitable dictionary rule! -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Audiobookfan Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 1:50 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Pronunciation dictionary When trying to define the proper pronunciation for a word in the JAWS 18 dictionary, how does one indicate the syllable that should receive the accent? I'm trying to get JAWS to pronounce Duluth properly. The accent should be on the second syllable. JAWS wants to put it on the first syllable. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks, Jeff For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electrónico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
