As I don’t use the enhanced Samantha voice, I had to test it out on the Mac as well, and it does in fact appear to do this as well. All of the nuance voices were recently updated with the release of El Capitan, so it is definitely nuance who needs to be notified.
God bless. Matthew Dierckens Certified Assistive Technology Specialist Macintosh, Windows and IOS Trainer U.S. number: 573-401-1018 Personal Email: [email protected] > On Oct 10, 2015, at 19:28, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, this does happen. Contact Apple about it, and have Neuance correct that. > This may be an embarrasement someday. But its not a problem, I don't believe, > in iOS, more like a speech problem that will have to be fixed. That's a very > bazarre, and embarrasing bug. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 10, 2015, at 5:56 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> OK, first off, this is not the public beta. I'm speaking of the official I >> O S build. that being said, this does happen as well on the beta. I tested >> it. Technically, I probably shouldn't be saying that, but anyway... >> >> Try this for yourself. >> >> 1. Switch your speech to the enhanced quality Symantha voice. It's the >> only one where I'm seeing this occur. >> >> 2. Type in the word "bit", b i t. bit. then, have it read back just the >> individual word. Notice that it reads it correctly. >> >> 3. Now however, do this. Type in a full sentence and use the word "bit" b >> i t, in the middle of the sentence. Make sure there's at least one word >> after it in the sentence. >> >> Now mark? Do not put me on moderator status here. We are all? adults here. >> OK? I'm not cussing like in my last thread. I'm quoting a bug here. I'm >> not trying to unprofessionally curse. So, let's be mature about this! I'm >> gonna be quite angry if you call me out on this publicly or not. But >> seriously, you'll notice, instead of saying bit, it instead says, bitch! b >> i t c h. Like a female dog. >> >> Example: I hope it explains things a bit differently, would actually come >> out as: I hope it explains things a bitch differently. >> >> If you read word by word though with your rotor, you'll notice that you did! >> spell things correctly, and that in all actuality, the word bit, b i t, is >> written, not the other word. >> >> Is that! not just totally! bizarre? If you don't believe me with this, and >> think I'm only writing this for attention, then, here's your proof: >> >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16962268/mispronunciation.mp3 >> >> Chris. >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
