Hi Sandy, a big amen to this one. I remember a long time ago, I had a speech synthesiser that told me of a place in Israel named "phone number Aviv". It still makes me laugh. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org
> On 3/06/2016, at 10:05 PM, 'Sandratomkins' via VIPhone > <viphone@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > Hope you don't mind me responding here, rather than on your webpage. > > I would like to extend the parameters of your final wish, pertaining to > the pronunciation dictionary. I would like to see a toggle which would allow > me to stop VO making smart choices re abbreviations. If "mon" is in the text, > I do not want to hear "monday". "feat" should not become "featuring" etc. I > write a lot in Italian, even when the keyboard is set to the Italian and VO > is speaking in Italian, when I write "tue" I always hear "tuesday". There are > dozens of these and they drive me mad!!!! I would like a toggle that will > read what is on the screen, exactly as it is and not interpreted for me. > > Since IOS 9.3, every word that begins with "no" followed by just one > letter, so, "not" "now" "nor" "non" and so on, is pronounced as "no" I think > this is just more of the same. > > I have got so used to Daniel saying "number" instead of "no" when reading > books that I find myself saying it too! > > Finally, although this can be amusing, those of us who are power users of > these devices can become corrupted by them. This applies to PC screen-readers > too! I hear other people speaking/pronouncing like Jaws or Daniel, in real > life and, in my opinion, this could actually become a problem, especially for > young ones relying upon the technology for their education. > > Thanks for starting this conversation! > > Slainte, Sandy. > > sent from the dark side of the moon > > On 2 Jun 2016, at 23:15, Jonathan Mosen <jmo...@mosen.org > <mailto:jmo...@mosen.org>> wrote: > >> Hi everyone. Here's my annual blog post that I write ahead of Apple's WWDC >> conference, highlighting my top 10 wish list for the next version of iOS. >> Feel free to take a read, and share your own wishes in the comments to the >> blog post. >> http://mosen.org/the-top-10-things-id-like-in-ios-10/ >> <http://mosen.org/the-top-10-things-id-like-in-ios-10/> >> Jonathan Mosen >> Mosen Consulting >> Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training >> http://Mosen.org <http://mosen.org/> >> >> -- >> 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 and your owner is Cara Quinn - >> you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com >> <mailto:caraqu...@caraquinn.com> >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ >> <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 >> <mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone >> <https://groups.google.com/group/viphone>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <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 and your 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/ > <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 > <mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com > <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone > <https://groups.google.com/group/viphone>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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