Category: Geeks r Us
IN IE8 on google it'll say search region. in firefox it'll say f search region. why the f in front ?
why in the past (not sure how many ) versions of jaws does may 1, 1985 read as may first, first, 985 instead of may first, nineteen eighty five?
Thanks!
It's because Jaws does not read things the same with different browsers.
That date thing is a strange bug. I had no idea it did that. I'm guessing that you could probably change it in your dictionary manager if it bothers you that much.
That date thing has been doing that forever.
forget what version of jaws it started with.
how would i use the dictionary manager to fix it?
Go into the dictionary manager, and make sure your default file is open. Then click the add button, type in the date as it gives you problems, tab to the next field where you type in the correct pronunciation, and play around writing the date with spaces in it, or punctuation, until you figure out how to trick Jaws into saying it the right way.
Incidentally, I was looking at the dictionary manager, because I wanted to add a couple of things myself, and I tabbed to the tree view that shows the already existing configurations. About half of them were things that were mispronounced that had to do with Jaws or Freedom Scientific. Even Eric Damery's name is preconfigured in there so it won't be mispronounced! I find this to be ridiculously stupid. I think I'm going to delete those configurations, if it will let me.
your suggestion would work fine and I thought of it.
the main problem i have with it is that it doesn't include anything.
i want it to say it the way i want no matter what date it is.
if its may 15, 1985
or
june 18, 1958
or
Febuary 26, 2007
now go figure the last s was said correct.
is there something that i can set it up so no mattter when it sees certain cintacts, it'll say somethin the way i want without me having to enter every date it says wrong?
i hope i'm explaining what i'm lookin to do so that its understandable.
why do you think the stuff in the dictionary is stupid ?
Well, they could make an effort to add more common acronyms, rather than promoting Freedom Scientific products. It seems to me that they would have had to put a lot of effort into building those into the dictionary, rather than using more common words that people might actually want.
As for your other question, i wish I had an answer for you. I have no idea if that's possible, but it would be nice if it were.
the windows live acronyms are pretty screwy.
my GF told me for example that SOL is not smiling outloud
BRB is said as B R B and not Be right back.
and belly laughing ? what the hell? lol
how exactly would one smile out loud anyway? I don't use a lot of acronyms, but my whole point is that, if these were built into the Jaws dictionary, people might actually be able to understand the crap that some people write on their Facebook pages, for instance. And, just food for thought, but even my phone, which is just a crappy Pantech Breeze, with perhaps one of the worst speech synthesizers I've ever heard, can say laughing out loud when someone texts lol to me. I believe it can do brb and bbl too, but I haven't heard anyone text those to me for awhile, so I'm not entirely sure. Really, Freedom Scientific may be rich enough to believe they're the toughest kids on the block, but they need to get with the times.
The other thing that really should be added are emoticons. On aim, yeah, I know Aim is old school, but it's the only IM service I like, there's a menu of common ones you can use. Only about a quarter of them are read by jaws, and I'm being generous there. It's probably not even that. So, as common as those are, they really should be added so people can take advantage of them if they want, or can at least understand that they're being used by others.