I can confirm that the offending intrusion of the phrase to the power off is also present when reading certain books and easy dolphin reader. I understand it indicates an asterisk or a sign that indicates a footnote or an end note. It doesn’t happen with fiction books which do not likely have such symbols
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 10, 2019, at 2:22 PM, kelby carlson <kelbycarl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 <richardturne...@outlook.com> >> 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: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of kelby >> carlson >> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2019 11:03 AM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> 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 <wale...@gmail.com> 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: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of kelby carlson >> Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2019 10:51 AM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> 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 <richardturne...@outlook.com> >> 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 <kelbycarl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Is anyone else noticing VO pronouncing the word gun as g-u"N, three >> separate letters? 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