NVDA sometimes spells last word between quotes in Firefox

[daTscharlie]

Hello James, different languages and web sites using different quotes - sometimes NVDA speaks the last word between quotes as single characters.

[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.

[daTscharlie]

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.

[jteh]

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

[daTscharlie]

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.