Thanks for being of help
My thoughts actually were to try to create a rule in dictionary manager that
manages to detect references in research articles and play a sound instead
of reading them because in some research articles references make up for a
lot of the letters and it would spare a lot of time to be able to skip over
them.
This is possible by using find and replace but I thought it would be more
convinient to use the Jaws dictionary manager because that way I won't have
to save a copy of the article and risk accidentally overriding the original.
Plus it would work on pdfs to.
Best regards
Eythor
-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On
Behalf Of Flor Lynch
Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2014 11:38 AM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] wildcards in dictionary manager
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" <emanuelbob...@gmail.com>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
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: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
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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