Yes, I have no problem locating extraineous punctuation with punctuation
set to some. I can only edit using Via Voice, because nothing else that
works with Kurzweil handles all the punctuation so well. An entire line of
the same punctuation marks read line by line is the only exception, and
when I come accross that strange silence I examine it character by
character to see if I should delete it or not. Of course this is using
Kurzweil 9.
Via Voice does have a problem occasionally when it tries to read strings
made up of some numbers combined with punctuation. I suppose it is
accidently being sent some kind of control code and then goes nuts. I just
stop the meaningless jabber and look at the problem area character by
character. I suppose it would take forever to figure out all the strings
that could be a problem, and then figure out some way to fix them. I just
hope it never does it in an MP3 created from a book. :-)
Sarah Van Oosterwijck Assistive Technology Trainer http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
If your punctuation level is set to "some" in Kurzweil 1000, then the speech engine is sent the text more or less unmodified, and it says what it wishes to say. VoiceText (also called NeoSpeech) tends not to pronounce standalone punctuation. IBM ViaVoice, on the other hand, does. So you would find that if you use IBM ViaVoice, it will read the punctuation.
If your punctuation level is set to "all", then, of course, the punctuation characters should always be read. That seems to be the case, at least with version 10 which is what I have on my system. It is certainly the case, even with earlier versions, when reading continuously. Moving a line at a time is sort of a special case, in that the message voice is usually used rather than the reading voice. Again, though, this seems to work correctly in version 10.
Stephen
At 10:36 PM 8/4/2005, you wrote:Now that you mention it, it would be nice to have a setting that would
cause K1k to read things like slashes. That would make it easier to find
junk characters and get rid of them.
Paula
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> It also refuses to read slashes, and backslashes even with Read all
> punctuation on, if I land on the line they are on.
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> Strange.
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> Kurzweil should read the three stars when you are reading > continuously. I
> don't know why it doesn't read them when you try to read the line they > are
> on when nothing else is on that line.
> You can read them character by character, though. It's not your > settings,
> it just behaves that way.
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