Comments on: Fix Mac OS X’s Text-to-Speech Pronunciation Errors

By: danR

danR — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:36:22 +0000

Yeah. I’m wondering why this article is still here. The poster obviously has not tested this in actual text-to-speech. It will work only in Voice-Over (if at all), not general text-to-speech, whatever the choices in the text field imply. This is another Apple botched ‘insanely great’ items that they create and forget.

By: Winnona

Winnona — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:05:42 +0000

well I would like to know if I am able to get voice for chat rooms

By: freakqnc

freakqnc — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:34:33 +0000

I have to agree with CrasH’s comment the customization in VO is useless as it will not work with TTS. If you activate VO it will start announcing every single item such as Application, Menu names, window’s title text and so on since that’s what it was meant for, aka aid visually impaired users, unfortunately is a pain for all other users. Even with VO on TTS will not work any differently as it will not apply those pronunciation customization the user made in VO’s preference panel. Sounds to me you wrote this article without testing, but if I am wrong please include what you did to have it working on your mac and we will all be very grateful for the useful tip. Thanks for your interesting post!

By: Matt Washchuk

Matt Washchuk — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:10:25 +0000

Fix Mac OS X’s Text-to-Speech Pronunciation Errors http://twurl.nl/ni7d1j

By: CrasH

CrasH — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:50:19 +0000

This does work to address Voice Over. However, by Apple’s own admission, Voice Over is different from Text To Speech which is the engine used when you highlight text in a webpage or document and select start speaking.

The thing is, whatever changes to pronunciation I make in Voice Over, they are not reflected in Text To Speech. In fact, none of the default pronunciation adjustments in Voice Over are reflected when writing some of these words in say TextEdit and selecting Start Speaking.

If you know how to fix this outside of installing a Cepstral voice (which you CAN change pronunciations on), please let me know.

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By: marksmithzurich (marksmithzurich)

marksmithzurich (marksmithzurich) — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:33:55 +0000

Fix Mac OS X’s Text-to-Speech Pronunciation Errors http://is.gd/sOqC

By: marksmithzurich

marksmithzurich — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:33:55 +0000

Fix Mac OS X’s Text-to-Speech Pronunciation Errors http://is.gd/sOqC

By: Matt Washchuk

Matt Washchuk — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:35:23 +0000

Fix Mac OS X’s Text-to-Speech Pronunciation Errors http://twurl.nl/1bvfk1