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One thing to double check, make sure you're clicking the Save button on the options page where you enter the shortcuts. Its an easy thing to overlook.

By key assignments, are you referring to keyboard shortcuts configured in the TextAloud For Firefox Extension? (Configure Keyboard Shortcuts from the popup ?) I tested keyboard shortcuts in both the current release (80.0.1) and beta (81.0) versions of Firefox and not seeing any problem. Are the cont...

The best thing to do for help with serial numbers and registration is to contact our support desk. Send an email to support@nextup.com and they should be able to help.

One way to handle would be to create a TextAloud pronunciation dictionary entry to filter the references. If all the references have this same format, you can use a regular expression to match these patterns and exclude them. Here is how you could do it. From the TextAloud menu click Control Center ...

Are you seeing any error messages ?

Also, is the problem possibly related to specific web sites? Try visiting https://nextup.com, and see if you're able to speak highlighted text from the extension.

Upgrading to the latest version of TextAloud won't hurt but I'm not sure it will help. It is worth a try though ... you can download an installer for the current version of TextAloud at https://nextup.com/files/ta4.exe. More likely, the problem may be that TextAloud's license information is corrupt ...

I'll need to look at an installer log to get some idea of what is happening. To get the log, re-run the installer. After the install fails, open Windows File Explorer, type %temp% in the address bar at the top and press the enter key. This should place you in your Windows temp directory. Scroll thro...

Actually the problem is that some voices pause at newline characters, TextAloud is not adding the pauses. There is a speaking rule available that should help with this. In TextAloud settings, under Speaking Rules, select Text Filters. On the Text Filters panel select the checkbox "Filter newlin...

The best place to start debugging this with a TextAloud problem report. Please duplicate the problem, then from the TextAloud menu click Help -> Support -> Report A Problem. Just mention this issue briefly in the problem report text. I may need more information from you but this is should get us sta...

Hi Jeff

Sorry but no, there are no command line options currently available.

I verified here that Acapela Rachel is pronouncing mon as Monday. One way to handle this would be to use Acapela's pronunciation dictionary utility to create a phoneme pronunciation for the word "mon". In your Acapela install directory (normally C:\Program Files (x86)\NextUp-Acapela Multim...

There is no code in TextAloud to perform automatic translations like this. If you're seeing text like "mon" pronounced as Monday the translations are happening at the voice engine level. Its also possible the problem could be related to TextAloud pronunciation dictionaries, if you have cre...

Actually the original regular expression: (?<=\p{Ll})(?=\p{Lu}\p{Ll}) should work with both cases txtPrint and txtFirstName. When processing txtFirstName, the expression should match "tFi" and insert a space before "F", then match "tNa" and insert another space before t...

I received the problem report and still looking through it. I'll get back to you via email later today

First make sure you're running the current version of TextAloud, version 4.0.51. If the version displayed on the About dialog (Help -> About) is earlier than that try updating to the current version using the installer at https://nextup.com/files/ta4.exe If you're seeing the problem in the current v...

Thanks for posting the sample, I think I see what the problem is. I think the problem has to do with the speaking rule to add end of sentence pauses, the voice is sensitive to the way TextAloud is placing the pause, causing the double quote character to be pronounced. I just placed an updated versio...

The bug I mentioned in the above post is now fixed. The speaking rule for handling mixed case words should now handle camel case correctly.

The problem is fixed in TextAloud version 4.0.51.2, the installer can be downloaded the from https://nextup.com/files/ta4.exe.

I'm not able to duplicate this problem myself. Would you please post a sample paragraph of text where you're seeing the problem, and also let me know which cerence voice you're using to speak the text in quotation marks?

This is actually a small bug in the speaking rule that handles mixed case. The rule is only working for words beginning with an upper case letter, like MixedCase, and we're not handling camelCase. I should have this fixed in an updated version of TextAloud in the next day or so. If you need to handl...

One possible way to handle this is with a TextAloud pronunciation dictionary entry that uses a regular expression to find periods followed by a letter and replace the period with 'dot'. Click Control Center -> Pronunciation Dictionary Maintenance to open the dictionary maintenance dialog, select a d...

You should be able to handle something like this with a TextAloud pronunciation dictionary. You can use a regular expression to find text to replace, and respell the text using a TextAloud spell function to spell out the first three letters. Here's how to do it. Click Control Center -> Pronunciation...

We do not have a way to export and import settings between machines. The thread at viewtopic.php?p=15154#p15154 may help, these instructions are for TextAloud 3 only.

If you haven't seen the forum post at https://nextup.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=6554 try looking there. Mozilla dropped support for installing extensions from application installers, you have to install the extension differently now. There are installation instructions at the post I mentione...

We recently released a TextAloud extension for Microsoft Edge. If you would like to try the extension, upgrade to TextAloud version 4.0.50.3 using the installer at https://nextup.com/files/ta4.exe. Requirements The extension requires TextAloud 4 to be installed, version 4.0.50.3 or later The extensi...

You can use the Voice Options panel in TextAloud Settings to normalize the volume used by different voices. In TextAloud Settings, click Voice Options in the left panel. The volume slider on this panel sets the volume for individual voices. Select each voice in your voice list, click the Test button...

TextAloud currently supports Sapi5 only, we do not currently support Microsoft Speech Platform or Windows Mobile. We may support these other speech api's in future updates.

Thanks for the debug information. The problem is fixed in version 4.0.48, installer at https://nextup.com/files/ta4.exe

I'm researching this problem, so far I have not been able to duplicate myself. Does it make any difference if the TextAloud main window is displayed or minimized? Also, please do this. Exit TextAloud and restart, just to clear the logs. After restarting, copy different selections of text to the clip...

In TextAloud 4 there is a settings in Advanced Settings that should help with this. From the main menu click Control Center -> Settings, and in the left panel, click Advanced Settings. Around the middle of the panel there is an option labeled "Keep display powered on when speaking aloud". ...

Hi Daniel, Sorry about the issue. We occasionally run into activation related problems, the solution is to do an offline activation. When TextAloud activation fails you should see a dialog with some options, including a button labeled "Request Offline Activation". If you press that button,...