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suggestion, give a possibility to automatically spell the characters in phonetic form #8822

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fernando-jose-silva opened this issue Oct 5, 2018 · 8 comments

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@fernando-jose-silva
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Steps to reproduce:

the suggestion is for o o nvda to place an option for:
when navigating a character in a text spell automatically in phonetic mode.
so by checking this option when navigating a character, nvda would advertise things like alpha, bravo, delta, etc.
The nvda makes it possible to do this by pressing nvda +. (point) two times, the suggestion would be for nvda to do this automatically if the user wishes.
This would be very well approved by me as I am reading passwords and activation serial and I need to press nvda + all the time. (dot) to make sure the correct character.
Just as examples the voice over has this option and also now the jaws 2019 beta.

Actual behavior:

To read a character phonetically, it is necessary to press twice for nvda +. (point).

Expected behavior:

When selecting an option, nvda will assume the nvda + command. (point) two times automatically when browsing characters.

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NVDA Installed/portable/running from source:

instal

NVDA version:

all

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all

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Does the issue still occur after restarting your PC?

yes

Have you tried any other versions of NVDA?

yes

@Brian1Gaff
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Brian1Gaff commented Oct 5, 2018 via email

@fernando-jose-silva
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laughs:
We could make the characters be spoken as soon as you type the letter, or the name of the letter or be told, just the phonetic character.
All this logically enabled and disabled by the user.
Yes I know the function of nvda +. (dot), the suggestion is to leave the nvda +. (dot) automatically when walking letter by letter, logically all this disconnected and connected to the user's taste.
I would use it, but not others.
It would use to maximize my time when reviewing passwords or keys for activating software.

@ruifontes
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ruifontes commented Oct 8, 2018 via email

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I love this suggestion and found this issue when I heard about the JAWS 2019 release. @fernando-jose-silva is correct that VoiceOver already implements this. It helps me because I have a hearing loss that makes it difficult to distinguish between certain similar-sounding characters. @ruifontes, I think this is a good idea and is also how JAWS handles it. But I think the setting should be there for users to turn on always spell character phonetically or only in the temporary phonetic mode as you've described.

I would have mine set to always announce phonetics, because I'm definitely one of those people that finds himself pressing CAPSLOCK+PERIOD twice quickly, a whole lot.

@Brian1Gaff Haha, but for those of us who make heavy use of the VoiceOver feature, it's a very good thing that VO does. Especially when I'm in a loud environment and can't hear my VO clearly, I pause a lot on keyboard characters and have VO confirm, with the phonetic announcement, that I am indeed on or off the character I want. So while you might find it annoying, it does actually help some of us and i'd argue that it's absolutely necessary for people like me to function efficiently.

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josephsl commented Nov 18, 2018 via email

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Closing as duplicate of #2922

@CyrilleB79
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@Adriani90 could you please re-open this ticked?
This is not at all a duplicate of #2922.

If I understand well this ticket (#8822), the user wants to hear "alpha", "bravo", "golf" when navigating by character on "a", "b", "g" with Numpad1 and Numpad3 (sorry, I do not know laptop layout equivalents).

On the contrary, in #2922, the user wants to have all IPA symbols spellt correctly, i.e. for "a", "b", "g" he should get "a", "be", "ghe".

@ruifontes
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Agree with @CyrilleB79. Both tickets are different!
Tony Malykh have an add-on to do that, named Enhanced phonetic reading.

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