VoiceOver and certain words in iOS 13

What voice is this happening with? The word gun still sounds fine with Alex on 13.2.

I understand the iOS 13.3 beta is addressing this type of problems.

In 13.1 sometimes when you dictate Greek and English are in the same sentence. Very very annoying.

Hello,

I've just tried it on my phone and you are indeed correct. I originally thought perhaps the word was all in uppercase as I have noticed that, while using Samantha or Tom, they don't read words the same.

For example, we have a television channel in Canada named CTV, and instead of VO spelling out the acronym, it's trying to read it as a word, and in iOS 12, it would spell it out.

So I thought you may have had the word in uppercase, but I tried it in lowercase and, sure enough, VO is spelling out the word "gun" instead of reading it as a word.

I suspect that there may have been an update to the speech synthesizers that Apple uses for VoiceOver that may have changed how certain VoiceOver voices reads words.

I myself have sent an email to Apple Accessibility mentioning this, and they did say they would pass it along.

I suggest you do the same as this could just be an inadvertent cause from the update. I do not think that Apple would purposely censor words that VoiceOver would read aloud.

Although, in a recent episode of Jonathan Mosen's episode of his podcast, he did talk about how Siri is bleeping the word "Honky" when asking Siri to play a song with the words "Honky Tonk".

So these days, who knows.

Female serie american voice says the word alert and dictate in a weird way. Dictate sounds like dictite and I can't spell how she says the word alert but it sounds kind of weird.

I reported this in 13.2 beta. It persists in new beta as well. I specifically pointed to gun, as well as oct for October. The feedback corresponding to this is FB 7408949.
I know the issue happens with Siri American male and Samantha.

This is interesting. When I use in the past Alex and selected vorail, Alex spell the app and did not mention the word. No issues with other voices.

I'm seeing certain words sounding weird or getting spelled out too! And I use Ava enhanced. It can be a little annoying, like when I'm reading a news article, but now I'm kind of getting used to it. I'm not saying it's not annoying or that thats what people need to do is follow in my footsteps. I'm just saying, that compared 2 some other bugs that I & a lot of us have faced, I'd say this is 1 that can be tolerated at least for me until the next update. Again, not saying this isn't annoying or that we should just grin & bale it or anything like that. All I'm saying is:
a: it's happening 2 me
b: for now @ least, this bug is tolerable.
and c: I jhought it was just me too! And I'm on 13.2.2 4 Ipads. Glad to know that I'm not crazy! lol

There's been this sort of nonsense for a while in UK Siri female. If you type the word are or our, it's as though you typed nothing at all. I can live with it because luckily, she still reads it out when it occurs in blocks of text. Your issue sounds much more annoying though.

.Finding more words in 13.3. Like the word how in caps says HOW. Where do you get the pronunciation of W as V. iOS 13 sucks!!!

I’ve only noticed this in the American accent English voices.

as of March 6, 2020, my phone says gun properly, but when the word how is in all caps, it says H O V. Very annoying especially on YouTube. i'm running 13.3.1.