Re: Punctuation and JAWS
- From: Pranav Lal <pranav.lal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:49:48 +0530
Hi,
another way to insert pauses after punctuation could be to add them
to the user dictionary with a space. I have faced your mispronounced
words in single quotation marks problem as well.
Pranav
on Saturday 11/19/2005 05:54 AM, Adrian Spratt said:
I appreciate your thoughtful reply. Still, the "most" or "some"
punctuation
setting question is a little different. I think of reading a long
document
on the Net where a semicolon can actually alter the meaning of a
sentence.
With a pause it would read one way, without a pause it reads another.
Personally, I get distracted from the content when listening to
punctuation
marks being spoken. The single quotation problem is even worse,
since JAWS
doesn't speak words accurately inside them. I face that issue all
the time
when reading the New York Times, for example. What I find strange is
that
both problems ought to be simple fixes for FS. They know how to
insert
pauses after commas and other punctuation, and JAWS handles words
inside
double quotations with ease.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Adrian,
> this is just my personal preference, but I keep Jaws set to speak
most
> punctuation, from among the choices offered in the basics
menu. which
> means that I don't hear things like commas spoken, but do hear
single and
> double quotation marks spoken so that I am apprised that it's a
quotation
> or a quotation within a quotation that I'm hearing. This is
essential to
> me in a way it might not be for another user, I understand. As
for colons
> and semicolons, I don't have jaws set to speak them, and I, too,
regret
> that they don't produce a significant pause. I think the only way
to
> really be sure what was happening, aside from reading word by
word, would
> be to go into the Configuration Manager verbosity section and get
those
> and other punctuation marks to speak, though I'd hate to do
it. If you're
> writing something yourself, rather than reading what's already
been
> written by someone else, leaving two spaces after a colon (and
even after
> a period) in the way that seems to have gone out of fashion (a
semicolon
> has always required only one space following)helps to slow Jaws
down
> appropriately, to indicate the rhythmic nuance. But in my
experience,
> anyway, it isn't possible to simply have text spoken in the
cadence that
> accurately reflects all such punctuation, I'm afraid. What I
describe are
> just some tricks I've had to learn to bear with because of this.
>
> sometone ,
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adrian Spratt" <A.Spratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> I find it helps my reading comprehension when JAWS pauses at
commas and
> other punctuation. However, it doesn't pause after colons or
semicolons.
> Also, JAWS reads text well between double quotation marks, but not
when
> the
> text is between single quotations. Does anyone have any
suggestions how I
> can make appropriate adjustments?
>
> Or, as I suspect, are these limitations inherent in JAWS? In that
case,
> do
> they interfere with other people's ability to comprehend what they
read
> with
> JAWS?
>
> I've written several times to the FS suggestions email address,
but
> without
> getting any response.
>
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