Problem: words and sentences written in CAPITAL letters are read letter-by-letter
Actually the way the text with all capital letters is read, depends on the Text-to-Speech voice software you are using, not my app. Some voices may read such text normally, others may read it letter by letter. Somewhere in the voice settings they may have an option to read upper case letter text one or the other way.
There is a way in @Voice to convert uppercase letter to lower case, it’s slightly technical and could cause other problems when reading text, where upper case is important for some reason. Here is how you could do this:
- Start @Voice app and open some text in the language you want to read in, e.g. in Spanish.
- Press the menu button – Settings – Edit speech.
- Press the button with + sign at the top to add a new speech replacement.
- In the “Type” field, select “Regular Expression (RegEx)
- In the Pattern field, type exactly this, also make sure that there are no spaces before and after this text:
\b[:upper:]{2,}\b
- In the Replace field, type exactly:
A->a
- If the keyboard is still showing on the screen after this typing, press the Back button once on your device to hide the keyboard, then press the “Save” button.
Now the program will change any “word” that consists of 2 or more uppercase letter to lower case and should read it aloud normally. Of course, this may not always be what you want, e.g. it would read USA as "usa" etc. No perfect solution.
Greg
post edited by Admin - 2020/05/03 13:52:30