Q: Speech voices ignoring period and other punctuation
Hello,
I use the text-to-speech feature often in Mac OS X Lion to read blog posts and news stories to me. I find it frustrating though, because even the newest voices all seem to have the same problem -- they ignore really critical punctuation.
For example, the voice will take a fairly significant pause at commas, but will blow right through a period, exclamation point or question mark. It even tends to seriously underplay a new paragraph. In some cases, it seems to almost speed up between sentences and jumps on the next sentence with no pause at all.
If I am looking at the text while I listen, I can follow, but that kind of defeats the point. Anyone know of a way to get the voices to be a little more thoughtful about punctuation?
Thank you in advance!
Benjamin
MacPro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Posted on Dec 5, 2011 8:26 AM