From the manual:
The Exception Dictionary
Some speech synthesizers make fewer pronunciation errors than others,
but none pronounce
every word correctly, or at least the way you pronounce certain words in
the part
of the world in which you live. And it is safe to say that in the
foreseeable future,
you will not have a system that pronounces every word just the way you
want to hear
it spoken.
If you find a word that your synthesizer is mispronouncing, use the
following procedure
to correct the speech:
1. Press the Edit Dictionaries hot key, which is Control-Shift-E by
default, to reach
the dictionaries settings group in the Window-Eyes control panel. Or,
press Control-Backslash,
and press "D" until you reach the "Dictionaries" settings group.
2. Press the right arrow to expand the node.
3. Press the down arrow until the Exception option is selected.
4. Tab to the "Original" edit box, and enter the word that your
synthesizer is pronouncing
incorrectly.
5. Tab again to the "Replacement" edit box, and type the word as you
want your synthesizer
to speak it. Do not worry about correct spelling for the replacement
text, as the
goal here is to make the word sound, and not necessarily look, right.
6. Tab to the "Update Entry" button, and press the Space Bar to add the
word to the
exceptions dictionary.
Now, any time Window-Eyes encounters the mispronounced word, it will
send the correct
version to your synthesizer instead of the original text.
The word-exception dictionary does not give you the power to change the
pronunciation
of anything but whole words which are text matches. For example, if you
correct the
pronunciation of the word psychologist, the word in the plural form is
not corrected.
You would also have to correct the pronunciation of the word
psychologists. Thus,
generally speaking, the exceptions dictionary is best for changing words
you might
not otherwise recognize or those which you find to be pet peeves when
mispronounced.
It is not a means for you to program the pronunciation of the entire
language.
Here are the rules for defining Window-Eyes word exceptions:
The original word can only contain alphabet characters (upper or lower
case) and
the apostrophe.
No spaces, numbers, other punctuation or enhanced Unicode characters are
allowed
in the word to be changed. When working with abbreviations, do not
include periods
at the end of the original word.
Spaces and other printable characters are allowed in the replacement
string. Putting
spaces in the replacement string is a good way to have Window-Eyes spell
acronyms,
rather than pronounce them as words.
You can also Tab to the list of defined exceptions and remove either a
single entry,
or you can delete all exceptions in the active dictionary at once. See
the detailed
explanation of the Window-Eyes control panel for additional information
about these
controls.
On 10/13/2013 11:57 PM, K wrote:
Hi, could someone refresh my memroy on how to make chagnes to the
exception dictionary? I arrowed down to the exceptions dictionary from
the main list and then what? and how do I flip from one panel to
another? how do I get t othe part that I actually enter text to
change? Running WE 7.5.
K
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