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2014/12/11 12:57:22 (permalink)

How to Silence the aloud speech of all special characters

The Animorphs series of books that I use this app to read aloud have a lot of greater than and less than symbols (< >). They are used in the books to denote when a character is using telepathy which is unfortunately very often. Is there any way to silence the aloud speech of special characters. Because it is incredibly annoying as it is. For instance a sentence in the book that might read "<How are you?>" sounds like "Less than how are you Greater than". It is annoying.
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    Re: How to Silence the aloud speech of all special characters 2014/12/11 13:27:50 (permalink) ☼ Best Answerby codyw1996 2014/12/18 03:08:17
    Use speech replacement ("Edit speech" under menu - Settings) to replace < and > characters with nothing, or with some other characters, e.g. double quotes:
     
    Type: Case sensitive
    Pattern: >
    Replace with: "
     
    And similar for < character. If this does not work, send me one of these ebook files, or tell me where to download it, so that I could examine this and propose a solution. Anyway, please post here the result.
     
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    Re: How to Silence the aloud speech of all special characters 2014/12/18 03:12:04 (permalink)
    Thanks it works most of the time. I used the text replacement to replace the symbols with periods. Every now and then they are still spoken out loud. I'm not sure what is causing these random occurrences. But it's much less of a problem now.
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    Re: How to Silence the aloud speech of all special characters 2014/12/18 07:55:53 (permalink)
    There may be some different encoding in the places where the speech replacement does not work. For example, the '>' could be encoded &lt; instead, and that string would have to be replaced. What I'll do in the next release, I think, is that into the big test window of the speech replacement editor I'll paste by default the currently highlighted sentence, exactly as it is encoded internally, so that you could see all the characters and test your replacement on a real sentence.
     
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