Richard,

Yes, that one is for Voiceover generally. The other one, where certain 
punctuation is pronounced "to the power of" appears to be exclusive to 
VoiceDream. I haven't tried a non-iOS voice to see what happens yet.. 

> On Nov 10, 2019, at 2:11 PM, Richard Turner <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> For me, the issue with the word gun, is not isolated to Voice Dream Reader.
> It is anywhere using US English voices.
> I just tested it in the Notes app using Tom Enhanced and the word gun is 
> pronounced g u n.
>  
> This was on my Work phone running iOS 13.2.2.
>  
> Richard
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> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of kelby 
> carlson
> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2019 11:03 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Another Weird Pronunciation Issue
>  
> It does appear only to happen in VoiceDream and not other apps. Hopefully 
> Winston can get to the bottom of it.
> 
> 
> On Nov 9, 2019, at 8:39 PM, Alan Lemly <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Kelby,
>  
> I got that to the power of when reading a Bookshare book with Voice Dream 
> Reader using Samantha enhanced under iOS 13.2. I was never able to figure out 
> what text was causing the "to the power of" words to be spoken since those 
> words weren't present. When I switched to another voice in voice Dream, the 
> problem seemed not nearly as bad although that might have been due to the 
> absence of the offending punctuation in that section.
>  
> Thanks for identifying the source of the strange pronunciation.
>  
> Alan Lemly
>  
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> kelby carlson
> Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2019 10:51 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Another Weird Pronunciation Issue
>  
> Thanks. Are you having the issue where Voiceover sometimes pronounces certain 
> punctuation as "to the power of"? It seems to happen with certain types of 
> quotation marks and hyphens.
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 8, 2019, at 10:02 PM, Richard Turner <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>  Yes. The fix until someone gets their act together, is to go into the 
> VoiceOver Speech, pronunciations and add gun, the word, which US English 
> voices say g u n, and enter the substitution gunn, which has two n's.
> I just did that and now gun is said correctly.
> This for sure started with iOS 13.
>  
> 
>  
>  
> Richard
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> On Nov 8, 2019, at 6:02 PM, kelby carlson <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Is anyone else noticing VO pronouncing the word gun as g-u"N, three separate 
> letters? Very very weird, and not sure how to fix it.  
> 
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