Hmmm. If I can stand using Standard Tom I may give it a try. Thanks for checking.
Dave Carlson Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Farfar, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Jan 26, 2022, at 6:35 AM, dan d. <[email protected]> wrote: Yes, the regular tom. I just checked to make sure, LAST with all caps speaks the word as a whole. I created a text file containing it and then opened textedit and it spoke it fully. On Tue, 25 Jan 2022, Dave Carlson wrote: > Dan, in my case I am using Tom Compact and that is what it???s doing. Are you > using regular Tom? > > Dave Carlson > Farfar, Engineer, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer > > On Jan 25, 2022, at 11:25 AM, dan d. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > These kind of things tend to be voice specific. I use tom and it doesn't do > as described. It has its own foibles however. The speech rules > appear to be somewhat different for various voices. > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2022, Dave Carlson wrote: > >> On my Mac, I???d like to find a simple solution for this. >> >> When I come across a word in all caps starting with the letters L and A VO >> will always say El A first and then the rest of the word. >> >> For example LAST is pronounced LA Street. LATHE is pronounced LA the. >> I know LA is Los Angeles so happy that it???s not saying that, but how can I >> un-train VO to stop saying El A for any all caps words starting with LA? >> >> LATER (yes LA Ter). >> >> Dave Carlson >> Woodworker, Oregonian, Pioneer, Musician, Engineer, and Farfar >> >> > > -- ent- XR -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/FC38DBD8-3C8C-4E05-9479-BD6D363D4479%40gmail.com.
