Strange that I'm not hearing it other places—I know articles I read contain em 
dashes. So does this email, in fact, and know "to the power of" there.

> On Nov 10, 2019, at 5:38 PM, Richard Turner <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Good fine Alan.
> That means it is not a Voice Dream Reader issue.
> I just checked and yes any superscript number is read as to the power of.
> I suspect in books where that is used, or the m-dash, iOS 13 is pronouncing 
> them differently.
> 
>  
> I switched to the British Siri Male voice on the language rotor and it did 
> not say to the power of on the memory numbers on the Apple Store.
> Also, when I switch to the Irish Siri voice even though the language is US 
> English, no to the power of.
> So, it is only with US voices.
> I'm going to send this to Winston with Voice Dream as well.
> 
> Richard
> "Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it." 
> -- from The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, by Jane 
> Wagner
> 
> 
>>> On Nov 10, 2019, at 1:46 PM, Alan Lemly <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>> 
>> Kelby and Richard,
>>  
>> I was just on the Apple Store app checking out prices and other specs on an 
>> iPhone XR and thought I had found another occurrence of the "to the power 
>> of" pronunciation. It was on the 64GB and 128GB capacities of the phone. 
>> However, when I placed the rotor in characters mode, I learned the 
>> capacities each had a superscript 1 next to them so I guess that 
>> pronunciation was appropriate. I would have preferred superscript 1 but to 
>> the power of 1 also works.
>>  
>> Alan Lemly
>>  
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
>> Of kelby carlson
>> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2019 2:53 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Another Weird Pronunciation Issue
>>  
>> The "to the power of" issue happens in most books for me. Usually it is 
>> pronounced where there is an em dash (this symbol —) or certain types of 
>> quotation marks. I haven't encountered this in Safari or other apps, just in 
>> VoiceDream. I am noticing the other pronunciation issues described, however.
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 10, 2019, at 3:13 PM, Richard Turner <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> It could be, but since it has changed in iOS 13, and Apple never said if 
>> there was also an update to the Vocalizer voices they are using, then I 
>> think the place to start is with Apple.
>> The current Vocalizer voices on a computer do not have the same issues, so 
>> who knows.
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> Richard
>>  
>> 🖖 Live long and prosper
>>  
>>  
>> Check out my web site at: www.turner42.com
>>  
>> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Cris 
>> Ali
>> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2019 11:56 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: Another Weird Pronunciation Issue
>>  
>> Isn’t the pronunciation of the iOS voices provided by the Vocalizer?  So, I 
>> wonder if contacting the vocalizer company could help in fixing these 
>> problems in the future releases of iOS.
>> Have anyone tried to contact the maker of vocalizer regarding such matters? 
>> Just curious.
>> 
>> Regards,
>>  
>> Cris
>>  
>> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Debby
>> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2019 2:36 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: Another Weird Pronunciation Issue
>>  
>> I have also found some weird pronunciations. I do get gun as g u n when I am 
>> reading in safari, and I just put it in a note and got the g u n.
>>  
>> For me in the Blindfold games the word re-sume  is pronounced as resume—like 
>> what you do to find a job. It does it in notes, too. Also in the games the 
>> word exposed is pronounced as ex-posed with the emphasis on the “ex.” It 
>> wasn’t like this before 13.2. I am using Samantha the regular.
>>  
>> Very strange!
>>  
>> Debby
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
>> Of Richard Turner
>> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2019 2:28 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: Another Weird Pronunciation Issue
>>  
>> OK, good to know.
>> Any particular book where that punctuation weirdness happens?
>>  
>> I almost always use Amy from Ivona with Voice Dream, which is the British 
>> female voice, so maybe this too is an American English voice issue?
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> Richard
>>  
>> 🖖 Live long and prosper
>>  
>>  
>> Check out my web site at: www.turner42.com
>>  
>> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of kelby 
>> carlson
>> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2019 11:22 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Another Weird Pronunciation Issue
>>  
>> 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
>>  
>> 🖖 Live long and prosper
>>  
>>  
>> Check out my web site at: www.turner42.com
>>  
>> 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
>> "Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it." 
>> -- from The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, by Jane 
>> Wagner
>>  
>>  
>> 
>> On Nov 8, 2019, at 6:02 PM, kelby carlson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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