this is been, what I consider to be, a bug, since forever! I would love it if we could just toggle, in settings, the use of these acronyms or for voice-over to just read exactly what is in the text. no one can just sit, they have Saturday. everybody gets married on Wednesday. chickens always live in a cooperative. you can’t just be told to “come on“ you have to do it on Monday. and I have never understood what is meant by “featuring“.
Sandy sent from the dark side of the moon > On 28 Nov 2017, at 03:10, Richard Turner <richardturne...@outlook.com> wrote: > > I’d go ahead and change it in the pronunciation dictionary and see if it > holds. It is treating it that way because of the period after it. > I cannot remember all the stings in the pronunciation area, but maybe you can > fix it there. > > Good luck, > Richard > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > R Van Lant > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2017 6:45 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: changing the way VoiceOver says something > > Hi, > If VoiceOver says an abbreviation I do not want it to say, can I change it? > I looked in Pronunciation, but I don’t think it will work to change it there. > The word is “coop”. if it’s in the middle of the sentence, it correctly > says “coop” as in the place where chickens are kept. However, if the word > coop is the last word in a sentence, VoiceOver wants to assume it’s the > abbreviation for “cooperative”. Took me a while to figure out why the novel > I was reading kept referring to a “chicken cooperative”. > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone 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 V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone 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 V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone 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 V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
