Hi Chris. You are correct in describing how the Greek language works etc. I don't use Alexandros that often. I use the acapela Dimitris which is a great voice. I only use it in modern Greek though. As for my problem, yes, voice over recognizes and reads Greek characters fine. However, when I spell or type a word, instead of just saying what I type, it describes the letters. So, for those who don't get it still, imagine voice over saying when you type. Small English letter a, small English letter b or capital English letter c, instead of a, b, C. By the way, if Anne reads this topic, it still does this even if I switched my OS environment to Greek. I think a message to Apple accessibility is in order. <smile>
Nektarios. On Jan 30, 2013, at 1:55 PM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland" <[email protected]> wrote: > Yadsu Nektarios. Ti kaneté? Iné epsi epsi. > > I think it's probably doing this to indicate a lower case vs. a capital > letter. Wow, I really need more practice! I forgot gama came after beta. > Anyway, I'm curious. What does Alexandros do with your tonos? Like if I'm > writing My name, Xristos. This could really be a problem, as if you put the > meh tono on the ita, your good, but you put it on the omicran, um... Den meh > lene Christ. LOL! OK OK, let me fill everyone in. Most languages have > different accent marks. Nektarios, I know you and I know what this is all > about, just hang tight and let me explain for the sake of others on list. > ROFL! Basically, in Greek, both moddern, and! for that mind, liturgical > greek... BTW, good luck finding a voice to do the old Liturgical greek. Oh, > Nektarios? If you? find! a voice to do that? I will love you forever! Anyway, > Greek has what's called Tonos. Basically... tone. OK, be careful here > though. By tone, I don't mean like some asian languages where you have the > rise 1 3 5 tone type of system. Unfortunately, they mean more tone as in > stress. Yeah, there were actual stress marks, in the liturgical greek, but > not in the more moddern Greek you'd here today say, if you went to Athens or > somewhere. Anyway, so what I was joking about is with my name, Christopher. > So, in the vocative form, Nektarios, correct me off list on this if I'm wrong > as I do get these backwards sometimes. My name is Xristos. So, basically, > he, ro, ita meh tono, sigma, tof, omikran, sigma telico. Don't worry about > the telico on the last sigma. Bottom line is, I was joking with him, saying > put the stress meh tono on the omikran instead of the ita. If you do that, > vocative or nomative form, doesn't matter, you basically then just called me > Christ. Yes, the tones can do that much. Anyway, that's OT, but I did wanna > fill yall in so you'd not be totally lost at that joke. Anyway, never mind. > LOL! Basically though, yeah, I'd be interested if he does do the tonos > correctly. It's totally sad that he doesn't pronounce a lot of the stresses > correctly. This is why I don't really prefer him as a voice. Lamentably, > he's really all we have right now. I do however wonder if the female voice > is any better, or for that mind if the Greek voices from Acapela would do any > better. > > Efxaisto, kay An dio. > > Chris Gilland. > Founder of CLG Productions > http://www.clgproductions.com > E-mail: [email protected] > Phone: 803-760-7136 > Toll-Free: 1-888-405-3185 > Mon-Fri 8A.M-5P.M Eastern Standard Time except weekends and holidays. > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nektarios Mallas" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 11:17 AM > Subject: spelling in Greek with voice over. > > > Hi list. > I am not sure when this problem started, I don't even remember if it ever > worked correctly. <smile> > When I type text in Greek using any Greek voice either from Acapela or the > default from Apple, if I want to spell a word with vo + w for example, > instead of the actual letters, alpha, beta, gama etc, voice over says, "small > Greek letter alpha, small Greek letter beta " etc. > Any multilingual users on this list face this problem? Is there any setting > in Voice over to fix this? > Any help is very much appreciated. > > Nektarios. > > > -- > 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?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > 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?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
