Hi all. Got a quick question for you.
Since I updated to IOS 10, voiceover has been doing something strange. IT thinks some words with full stops after them are abbreviations and translates it into the full word. The most striking example of this is when it encounters the word no with a full stop, it says number. This is especially distracting when reading text in iBooks, I recently had a line of text that should have said "no. No. No." Instead it said "number number number." Very, very distracting. IT also changes sun with a full stop into Sunday and the letter m by itself into metres.
I don't think this is an issue that can be solved by changing it in the Voiceover pronunciation dictionary. Is there a setting I can change, so that Voiceover doesn't automatically interpret words as abbreviations and try to say them in full? I don't actually think it is a useful feature.
Any help gratefully appreciated.
By tclare1, 29 September, 2016
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iOS and iPadOS
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voiceover keeps assuming things are abbreviations
Hello, did you get any answers about this?
I have this problem with many things, it's now announcing "ME" as "maitre" (I work in france). We tried a lot of things before, it is simply mad how it did this (M = metre, K= kilo, ... )
Hi,
Hi,
It's not a VO issue. It's all dependent on the TTS voice you use. try switching to another voice. It's not the pronunciation problem, it's the TTS itself.
You can fix these.
You can fix these by adding them into the pronunciation dictionary.
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But why is it the default?
We have an app with a lot of VO users ... delivering it with a note saying to change the pronunciation of "ME" to "me" (instead of "maître") or of K to "k" (instead of kilo) ... is not really an option.
I will see about changing the speaker on VO... but I doubt that will help.
But many thanks for the responses!!, glad to know someone's listening
Kelo?
Are you sure you don't have fenetic feedback on? That's the only time it should say k as kelo this can easely be turned off. With Daniel the only thing I had to add to the dictionary was the saying no. as number thing.