NVDA sometimes spells last word between quotes in Firefox

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Reported by daTscharlie on 2008-11-24 21:30
Hello James, different languages and web sites using different quotes - sometimes NVDA speaks the last word between quotes as single characters.

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Comment 1 by jteh on 2008-11-25 01:07
I assume you mean it spells the word? This is an issue with the speech synth being used. Some synths will spell a word if they detect an unknown character. Please confirm if this is correct. In this case, there is little that can be done on the NVDA side; we should not arbitrarily ignore characters because a synth cannot handle them. However, you can create a speech dictionary to work around this.

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Comment 2 by daTscharlie (in reply to comment 1) on 2008-11-25 02:04
Replying to jteh:

I assume you mean it spells the word? This is an issue with the speech synth being used. Some synths will spell a word if they detect an unknown character. Please confirm if this is correct. In this case, there is little that can be done on the NVDA side; we should not arbitrarily ignore characters because a synth cannot handle them. However, you can create a speech dictionary to work around this.

I'm using IBM ViaVoice SAPI4 version 6.4.1.0 and your work around has solved this issue. Thank you very much.

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Comment 3 by jteh on 2008-11-25 18:08
Out of interest, does this problem occur for you with the in-built eSpeak synthesiser?
Changes:
Changed title from "NVDA speaks last word between quotes in Firefox sometimes characterwise" to "NVDA sometimes spells last word between quotes in Firefox"
Added labels: wontfix
State: closed

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Comment 4 by daTscharlie (in reply to comment 3) on 2008-11-25 18:56
Replying to jteh:

Out of interest, does this problem occur for you with the in-built eSpeak synthesiser?

eSpeak and Neospeech Kate/Paul works fine.