Hi, I have also seen this for years.
this is not quite a bug in the sense that it is the structure for a speech command which you can see in action by doing the following. I will not put these commands in this text as I'd rather not make people's speech go wonky! lol! :) 1 open a text file with TextEdit 2 add the command rate90 at the top of the file, surrounded by three brackets as in: [[[ command ]]] 3 Type some text below the command you just placed in the top of the file as in: This is just a test Now when you do a say all with VO a the test text should be spoken quite slowly. The number you type for the rate is the rate of speech in words per minute. So when VO encounters the triple brackets in text it expects a speech command, but does not speak what is in those brackets. Hope this helps explain this a bit. Have a great day All! Cara :) --- iOS design and development - LookTel.com --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara On May 2, 2014, at 7:04 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: You know what's weird? The word "secret" was read in say-all and line-by-line reading. When I find code snippets that won't read, they don't appear to work anywhere, not just in Mail or Xcode, but I haven't figured out the rules that cause this to happen. Still, I'm glad it isn't just me. Thanks. On May 2, 2014, at 9:56 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I even tried it in another editor (SubEtha Edit) and it did the same thing. > So VO is getting confused consistently. Apparently it's the triple-bracket > that makes VO silent. The following is a simpler example that also fails: > > This is some [[[secret]]] text. > > I have the word "secret" in triple brackets and VO says nothing when I move > focus there. Text Edit does the same thing. So this appears to be a pretty > low-level bug. > > CB > > On 5/2/14, 9:37 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >> That's weird, but it makes sense that VO is confused. I can verify it. I can >> read character by character and it shows up, though. >> >> Teresa >> >> “Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”—Richard P. >> Feynman >> >> On May 2, 2014, at 6:26 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I've noticed something really odd lately, and I'd like to see if anyone can >>> confirm it. Below is a line of code. You don't need to know Objective-C or >>> anything; the oddity is that VO is skipping text. Specifically, the bit >>> that says [[self solitaireModel] isDiscardStackRole] is omitted entirely. I >>> recommend you set punctuation to "most" before continuing. Here's the line: >>> >>> [self setDiscardStack:[[AITCardStack alloc] initWithRoles:@[[[self >>> solitaireModel] isDiscardStackRole]]]]; >>> >>> I assume you read that line by line, or all at once in a say-all. Go back >>> and examine it word by word, or character by character, and see if there >>> isn't a part near the end that VO skipped over entirely. I can reproduce >>> this with any voice, and I'm starting to wonder if the brackets are getting >>> VO confused. On the Mac, in-line speech commands are surrounded by double >>> brackets, and I think the speech manager that lets VO talk might be getting >>> mixed up. >>> >>> -- >>> Have a great day, >>> Alex Hall >>> mehg...@icloud.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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