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Re: Acrobat Read Out Loud mistakenly reads letter as Roman Numeral

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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Jul 17, 2014 3:07PM

The "symptom" actually goes back to the Text to speech architecture in effect / voice used/ cultural region with which the voice is associated.

On my Mac OS X 10.8.5,
- with the (US English) voice Alex (or Ralph or Agnes) activated, and asking the Mac OS to speak the text "Medicare Part D" it speaks the "D" as "five hundred".
- with the (UK English) voice Emily (or Daniel) the "D" is spoken as "D"

All his does not have anything to do with Adobe…

Olaf



On 17 Jul 2014, at 22:25, Jordan Wilson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Interesting Julie - I went back and tested on PC after you mentioned it
> spoke the D correctly for you.
> On my Mac its read as 500, but on the PC it is read as D as you mentioned.
> (Both using Read Out Loud) That's better than nothing - at least for the
> majority of users its not a problem.
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> Thanks for the input everyone!
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> On 7/17/14 3:03 PM, "Julie Romanowski"
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>> Of course Read Out Loud shouldn't be used as a substitute for screen
>> reader testing. It's a text-to-speech tool, not a screen reader. However,
>> that doesn't mean it can't be a valuable tool. There are people in my
>> organization with various cognitive disabilities who use text-to-speech
>> software to help better understand information presented in
>> documentation. TextAloud is the text-to-speech software we provide to our
>> employees who need this type of accommodation. However, many of them use
>> Read Out Loud when reading PDFs, as it does a better job in identifying
>> text correctly. For example, Read Out Loud will read Roman Numerals as
>> numbers while TextAloud doesn't.
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