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
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
----- Original Message ----- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 9:21 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Reading stars within Kurzweil 1000
> It also refuses to read slashes, and backslashes even with Read all > punctuation on, if I land on the line they are on. > > Strange. > > Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden > juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. > Graduate Advisory Council > www.guidedogs.com > > The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to > stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. > > -- Vance Havner > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 1:34 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Reading stars within Kurzweil 1000 > > > 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. > > Sarah Van Oosterwijck > Assistive Technology Trainer > http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.0/63 - Release Date: 8/3/2005 > > > > >
