Hi. I’m using the Nathan Compact voice. Oh well, it is what it is, but it’s annoying. Kevin and Jilly

David, It's beyond the scope here, but believe it or not it would be possible to identify a string like Saint Peter Street, with the abbreviations used on both ends, and with anything in

 Hi Steve, Jaws does have an option to expand abbreviations or not, it's in the Settings Center, in both the applications Settings Center and Settings Center default all applications. Look

Acapella, which I've used with another screen reader, takes this to a whole new level with the text string TVs, as in "how many TVS do you own" as it reads the string as "t versus"

Brian, you wrote:>>There is no winning here.Perhaps not for everyone. Ideally, what I think would be a reasonable solution would be a screen reader setting to either allow or enable synth-specific

- But it is important to note that the responsibility still lies with the synth, not the screen reader, in terms of how it behaves. And I'll bet that once this ability to pass the flag/switch to the

I’m taking back everything I said on this topic. Kevin, my Vocalizer Tom Enhanced speaks your example perfectly as g d not good. Which voice are you using exactly? And, I have actually

There was a passing mention on the recent FS Open Line about an upcoming version of Vocalizer. Eric said it wouldn’t be in the first release of JAWS 2021, but they hoped to add it into an update.

Hi, Again, Nuance have already included it as a screen reader flag, so it’s up to Vispero to put a switch in the UI. All the best Steve -- Computer Room Services 77 Exeter

Hi David, I wish JAWS would have an option to not expand abbreviations. If you buy CodeFactory’s version of Vocalizer, it has a setting in its own settings to disable abbreviation expansion.

- But I have never seen a synth do this. The very purpose of an exception is to tell the screen reader to pass something to the synth that one knows will be pronounced as the end user wants it to be

On Wed, Sep 16 Brian Vogel said: That is the way. There is no default that is going to please everyone. And there are circumstances, like the abbreviation ess tee, that it would require

- David, That is the way. There is no default that is going to please everyone. And there are circumstances, like the abbreviation ess tee, that it would require artificial intelligence

Given the number of times this issue has arisen, and across the various screen readers, and how many NVDA developers have commented that this is synth dependent, not the product of the screen reader,

GD is the braille contraction for good. Perhaps it is being confused that this should be the default at all times? It’s like S t always being pronounced street, when it is equally used for

Yet again a demonstration of something I keep saying: You cannot make defaults that please everyone. And no matter what that default may be, some user or users are going to hate it. But if it's

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I think that the most likely method for affecting change, and it's a very necessary change in my opinion, is to have as many users as possible storm Vispero as well as Nuance and insist on

The fact is that these modern, human-sounding synthesizers are absolutely notorious for doing this. To me it's maddening as I don't want my reader, human or synthetic, to substitute what's

I have not downloaded anything from YouTube, but getting anything from Amazon usually gets me a Zip file that contains all of the songs with their file names and meta data. Where did the download go