Alex Voice Bug in Yosemite

By Maldalain, 24 May, 2015

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Greetings,
Can anyone confirm the way Alex pronounces the pronoun "Her"? Each time I type that word Alex pronounces it twice.
Is there any workaround for this?
Thanks.

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By Joseph on Thursday, May 28, 2015 - 17:17

never had it hapen to me, but then i haven't been paying attention.

By KE7ZUM on Thursday, May 28, 2015 - 17:17

I don't have the issue. contact apple accessibility Tuesday when they are open by phone.

By Chris Norman on Thursday, May 28, 2015 - 17:17

Not noticed that one, but there's quite a few problems I've found.

Mine says Nice as niece. Most annoying.

By KE7ZUM on Thursday, May 28, 2015 - 17:17

Report tht to apple. do this through the mail and a log of what was spoken last. Read the manual for more info.

Take care.

By Ganahee on Thursday, May 28, 2015 - 17:17

Here's the issue with nice being pronounced as niece, by Alex.

If you capitalize the word nice, at the beginning of a sentence, no problem. However, if you write the following:

"Have a very Nice day!"

You'll notice Alex pronounces it as niece. Now, if you write the same sentence, but with the word nice, all in lowercase letters:

"Have a very nice day!"

Nice is no longer pronounced niece.

Still, it's an annoying bug, granted.

Now, as to the pronoun her, I don't usually notice what was described, however, when I wrote her, followed by a comma, here on the site, Alex did say her very rapidly, twice. Perhaps the trailing comma is the issue? Just writing her without a comma after the word, doesn't seem to yield the same results.

HTH?

By Justin on Thursday, May 28, 2015 - 17:17

yeah, I see the nice bug. This is not a speech synth bug, it's a VO pronunciation bug. I think you could try the pronunciation dictionary in VO, under speech settings. HTH