[macvoiceover] Re: Voice Over not reading text

Greg,
I've never seen this in text I've experienced the problem with. Many times, when I've encountered the problem, it seemed as though VO choked when transitioning from one block of text to another. It seems that, many times, there appears to be a blank line there. That seems to be where I encounter that "trill" sound VO Makes.
As mentioned by someone else, previously, I've also had problems reading some PDF documents, although I haven't read a whole lot of them. Generally, I usually encounter this problem, mainly in eMail, some text files, and reading profile info, as I mentioned earlier.
This Perl code: This is to be run from the command line, correct? Will this help fix the problem in PDFs, or just plain text files, RTF files, etc? 

Thanks!

Ron

On Jul 25, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Greg Kearney wrote:


Ron;
Any text between double square brackets [[ ]] is assumed to be an embedded speech command and will not be read. Below is a bit of perl code which should remove such from any file you direct it at. 

/usr/bin/perl -pi -e 's/\[\[|\]\]//g' /path/to/file

This is a known bug in VoiceOver and has been reported to Apple.

Greg
On Jul 25, 2007, at 15:37 , Ron J. wrote:


Gabe,

        Some questions for you then:
1. Could these Speech Manager commands, which you think are embeded in the text, and are freaking out VO, be the reason why VO sometimes makes a "trilling" sound when reading text? I've had this happen while reading messages in Mail, editing feilds in iTunes, reading profile info in Adium X,, etc.
2. Couldn't a program be written to analyze text for these strings and remove them?
3. Could an AppleScript be ritten to do this in various applications?
4. Could some sort of a "system-wide" plugin, patch, or module, be written to monitor any text you're reading, be it in Mail, Preview, an editor, etc, and intercept these codes, before VO gets them and freaks?
I'm not a programmer, so maybe I'm all wet on this one. I'm just a rank amateur, when it comes to OS X, but, given the fact that the core of OS X is open-source, I'm actually surprised that there aren't any plugins, patches, or modules for augmenting VO. Just my thoughts.... 

Ron

On Jul 24, 2007, at 9:22 AM, The BlindTechs Network wrote:
again, my suspect is that VO via the speech channel it is using is reading the lines that it is not speaking on a speech manager commands and therefore not reading do to a command syntax error or something to that affect. 

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