Your right any text inside the "double square bracket" stuff "right
double square bracket" is now considered an embedded command and not
spoken. It does not matter if it is a real command or not. SpeechML
or SSML as it is sometime known is a much better solution to this and
I have urged Apple to implement it. SSML is what Cepstral supports
which is why the original DTBmaker used their voices. And why for
real quality work I continue to suggest using their voices.
Greg Kearney
On Feb 8, 2007, at 11:01 , Rich Caloggero wrote:
Also, this kind of obscure "markup" can cause problems. What if you
wanted
to actually write out the string "double square bracket" stuff
"right double
square bracket", and your "stuff" just happened to match a command.
Probably
not too likely, but possible.
Very cool nonetheless though.
What about speechML - this should probably be the way this kind of
control
should be implemented.
Just my two cents...
-- Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryl Homiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac
OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: Embedded speech commands in VoiceOver
This is really interesting.
However, while newbies probably wouldn't know this immediately, it
should be easy
enough for people to check the spelling of gregkearney in an email by
reading letter by letter--ctrl-option-shift-right/left-arrows. Is this
for some reason not working in Apple
mail for some people? Admittedly, I am currently using Pine most of
the
time so I can use braille, but i just tried this in apple mail and it
worked for me. The only major problem I see with this is that if
you use
infovox or Cepstral voices, you can't tell which letters are
capitalized.
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
