Hi Judy, What happens if you just dictate punctuations? Do they come out as expected? If not, it may be time to have a poke through the vocabulary editor. Pranav -----Original Message----- From: j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judy Watford Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 6:42 AM To: j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [j-say list] Re: making progress Yes, back in the dark ages I had a degree in broadcast news. They worked a couple of month ago. I looked in the menus and normal is checked. I need to get the punctuation straightened out. Thanks, Judy -----Original Message----- From: j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pranav Lal Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 6:59 PM To: j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [j-say list] Re: making progress Hi Judy, Hmm, how are you dictating? Remember, you need to speak like a newscaster. Have a look at the commands tab in options and adjust the pause before commands slider if that will help at all. Pranav -----Original Message----- From: j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judy Watford Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 11:01 PM To: j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [j-say list] making progress commands like speak line are working. I went to the accuracy center and made some fine audio adjustments. When I try to capitalize a proper name, half the time it puts cap in the document and the other half it is working. same for quotation marks. is there a way to set the punctuation commands to function better? Also, when I tell it to speak document, I get Jennifer instead of my Jaws voices. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks, Judy