Does the following Help topic, taken from the JAWS Dictionary help,
Introduction, assist in the process?
Adding Speech for Special Symbols
While JAWS correctly represents the most frequently used symbols with
speech, you may need to add new ones. If you are reading a document and
find that JAWS misrepresents or does not announce a symbol, do the
following:
1.. Open Settings Center (INSERT+F2) and expand the Images and Symbols
group.
2.. Select the Speak Character Value in Hex check box.
3.. Choose OK to save changes and close Settings Center.
4.. Return to your document. Move the cursor to a lowercase letter "a"
(type one if none are present) and press NUM PAD 5 three times quickly.
JAWS should say, "Character U+61HEX". If you hear anything else, do not
proceed with these steps.
5.. Move the cursor to the character whose speech representation you
want to change and press NUM PAD 5 three times quickly to obtain the
hexadecimal unicode value of the character. Be sure to make a note of
this value, as you will need it in the next steps.
6.. Using a text editor like Notepad, open the .sbl file for the
active synthesizer. This file is located in your user settings folder
(C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Freedom
Scientific\JAWS\X (where X is the JAWS version number)\Settings\Enu). If
your user settings folder does not contain Eloq.sbl, then look for it in
the shared settings folder.
Note: Character definitions are specific to your synthesizer and
selected language. For example, if you are using Eloquence and American
English, you should open the file named Eloq.sbl and modify the section
named [American English].
8.. At the bottom of the appropriate section for your language, add a
new entry for the specific symbol you want JAWS to speak. The entry
should be in the following format:
U+XXXX=SpokenRepresentation
(Where XXXX is the unicode hexadecimal value of the symbol, and
"SpokenRepresentation" is the desired pronunciation).
9.. Save your changes to the .sbl file, and then quit and restart
JAWS. Your speech changes should now take effect.
Related Topics:
Adding and Modifying Braille Symbols
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Emanuel Boboiu" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] wildcards in dictionary manager
I think there are no possibilities to use wildcards in another way.
JAWS is the simplest screen reader speaking about dictionary.
Even Talks is better, at least we can replace a letter with another one,
this being a very good option for those who use diacritics unspeakable
by a
specific voice.
We wrote many messages to Freedom asking to improve the dictionary, we
don't
need it so advanced like that found in NVDA, but at least to replace a
string with another one.
Let's wait for version 16...
Emanuel Boboiu
-----Mesaj original-----
From: Eyþór Kamban Þrastarson
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 5:05 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [JAWS-Users] wildcards in dictionary manager
Hi
I have a simple question.
Do you know if there are any more uses for wildcards in the dictionary
manager than using the asterisk * character at the end of an expression
to
indicate that a word has different endings?
Best regards
Eythor
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