So could you append a file that would be spoken as an mp3 file with one of
these speech commands? Just curious.
Teresa
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On May 2, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Cara Quinn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 :)
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> On May 2, 2014, at 7:04 AM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> 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
> <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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.
>>>>
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>>>> Alex Hall
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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