Hi. I agree. I believe that just hearing the tone would do the trick. Besides, if you waited for your Mac to say the word that was mis-pronounced, you might be opening up a whole can of worms if you are working in a multilingual context. What I like about the voices I have is that when writing in German, they alert me to mis-spelled words. I am not sure if they would do this if I weren't running Voice Over. On 13,Jul,2010, at 12:39 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
> Not so sure this would be as easy. First the one problem might be in how a > word is pronounced vs how it is spelled. SO, what I mean is sometimes a word > is spelled correctly, but not pronounced correctly. So, even if you hear the > word, the "buzz" is more likely to grab your attention then just hearing the > word. Not a bad idea, just tossing out there the possible con of implementing > the feature. > > On Jul 12, 2010, at 4:28 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > >> Hi, >> On the pc side of things there once was a little known office suite called >> Easy office. It wasn't very accessible but it had a very cool feature in its >> word processor: If you typed a word that the spell checker thought was >> misspelled, it actually sent this misspelled word to the sapi speech synth >> so that it read the misspelled word aloud. My suggestion would thus be to >> write to the >> apple a11y team but not to tell VO to do one neat trick or other, but to >> have this feature i talked about above incorporated into the speel checker. >> That way many programs could benefit from that feature. What do y'all think >> about that? >> /Krister >> >> 12 jul 2010 kl. 21.53 skrev Michael Busboom: >> >>> Hello Nic, >>> >>> Before responding to what you wrote, I need to thank you once again for >>> your assistance with the multilingual issue I was having earlier. You and >>> Anne were extremely helpful! Now, I am happily writing texts in German and >>> actually understanding what I write, using high-quality German >>> text-to-speech software, instead of trying to guess what Alex is saying as >>> he abysmally pronounces every word in the language that Mark Twain loved so >>> much. >>> >>> As far as what you write, it makes sense that words mis-spelled would be >>> both voiced and "beeped." I will write to the accessibility people and ask >>> them to consider including an option where the keyboard remains silent, but >>> a beep is issued if a word is mis-spelled. >>> >>> Thanks and good night, >>> >>> Mike >>> >>> On 12,Jul,2010, at 9:42 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> When I set it to words, this happens just the way you describe it. Of >>>> course, that requires VoiceOver says the word, of course. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Nic >>>> Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com >>>> GoogleTalk: chojiro1...@gmail.com >>>> Facebook >>>> Twitter >>>> Skype: Kvalme >>>> MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk >>>> Yahoo! Messenger: cin368 >>>> AIM: cincinster >>>> >>>> On Jul 12, 2010, at 9:12 PM, Michael Busboom wrote: >>>> >>>>> One of the things I love about Voice Over is the way that it alerts us >>>>> when a mis-spelled word is encountered while reading. While this is >>>>> really cool, I am wondering if it is possible to take advantage of this >>>>> feature while typing. Whenever I type, my keyboard is silent, the way I >>>>> like it. However, I'd love it if, while typing and a word is >>>>> mis-spelled, you'd get a beep as soon as you hit the spacebar or any >>>>> punctuation character. Is this actually possible right now, or do I need >>>>> to drop a note to the accessibility group? >>>>> >>>>> Mike >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
