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Thanks for the feedback. We plan to add regular expression support for search and replace in a future TextAloud update.

Sorry for the delay, our support desk should follow up with you very soon.

Hi Jessica Thanks for reporting this. I tried the same thing here. What I'm seeing is that the popup is actually displayed, but we're not forcing the window to the top. So it is possible for the popup to appear behind other windows, remain visible for a few seconds, then disappear. If that is happen...

Thanks for letting me know about the character problem, great job finding that! The \u00A0 character you're seeing is a 'non breaking space', word processors use it to prevent a line break at certain space characters. I'll look at updating TextAloud to detect these and replace with normal spaces bef...

We don't have an estimate on a date yet, but we are planning to add support for windows mobile voices in a future TextAloud update.

TextAloud can import Libre Office documents (.odt files) using File -> Open. If you're asking about a Libre extension we currently do not have one available.

There is an update at https://nextup.com/files/ta4.exe that fixes some of the NVDA issues mentioned here, and the problem with the garbage character between chapters when loading epub documents

I don't recognize this problem. Best thing would be to duplicate the error, and after the problem occurs, send a TextAloud problem report. From the TextAloud main menu click Help -> Support -> Report A Problem, and just mention this issue briefly in the problem report text

Thanks for the feedback. The next TextAloud update should fix some of the NVDA issues, and also solve the problem with the garbage character inserted between chapters when importing epubs. I'll post here when the update is ready, should be early next week

Is the problem you want to pronounce the period in .NET as a dot, but not periods at the end of sentence? Let me know if that's not right. If that's the problem, one solution is to create an entry in a TextAloud pronunciation dictionary that matches the text .NET and respells it. See below for the r...

Hi Tom

There is currently not a way to configure this in TextAloud, we'll try to add in a future update

I'm having trouble duplicating the pause issue myself, I'm not sure what could be causing it. If you can duplicate the problem, would you please send a TextAloud problem report after speaking the text? From the TextAloud menu click Help -> Support -> Report A Problem, and just mention this issue bri...

Thanks for the example Andrew, the extension is simply not excluding html image tags. I'll look at fixing this, but I think you should be able to work around the problem for now using a TextAloud pronunciation dictionary entry. Go to the TextAloud main window, and from the main menu click Control Ce...

Are you seeing this issue in the extension for Chrome? If the page does not require a login, Is is possible to send a link to a page so I can give it a try myself? You can post here or email me at jim@nextup.com

If you could send the TextAloud problem report mentioned earlier I should be able to get more information on the voices you're using, and find what possibilities are available for these kinds of pronunciation corrections. From the TextAloud main menu, just click Help -> Support -> Report A Problem. ...

Yes, you should be able to create pronunciation dictionary entries in TextAloud that ignore case. On the dialog that lets you create / edit pronunciation dictionary entries, there is a checkbox labeled "case sensitive". If you want the text match in the dictionary entry to ignore uppercase...

I'll need some additional information to help. First, please make sure you're running the current version of TextAloud, version 4.0.39. From the TextAloud menu click Help -> About, and if the version displayed is earlier than 4.0.39, update using the installer at https://nextup.com/files/ta4.exe. Th...

I'm not sure what could be causing the problem. First, do a quick check to see if the problem is possibly related to the page displayed in the browser. You can try visiting http://nextup.com, and see if the extension works there as a test. If the problem is not related to specific web pages, it is p...

In general we have found that voices that support sapi5 phonemes don't support placing emphasis very well. About the only thing I know of you can do is try varying the placement of the tag, which you have already tried. One other possibility would be to try using the 'syllable break' character (a pe...

Thanks for the suggestion, we'll look at adding this. In case you're interested, the ssml phoneme tag you're using also recognizes the x-sampa alphabet, which may be easier to enter from the keyboard. For example, alternate pronunciations of the word "pecan" look like this: <phoneme alphab...

Hi Andrew, Its strange that I'm not able to duplicate this. I just placed a TextAloud update, version 4.0.38.1 at https://nextup.com/files/ta4.exe. The update includes a change to the area of code that is supposed to be forcing the ta window to the foreground. It is possible this code change may mak...

Please duplicate the error, and after the error message has been displayed, submit a TextAloud problem report. From the TextAloud menu click Help -> Support -> Report A Problem, and just mention this issue briefly in the problem report text. Information in the problem report logs should give me a be...

Glad to hear that helped.

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I think the problem with the mask is that you're missing parentheses. When you use $1 and $2 in the respell field, they correspond to values matched in the expression in parentheses pairs. If you change your mask from ##:## to (##):(##) I think it should work. I'll check on the problem you found wit...

You may be able to use TextAloud for this, you may need to try it out and see how it works. There is a 20 day trial available, so you can try it without purchasing the app. You can use TextAloud to speak text aloud, or create audio files from text. In your case you would type text into a display are...

I'm not sure how the voice you're using would handle a colon followed by a period, but here are two options. First, here is how you can force a period to follow the colon at the end of a line. To do this, modify the regular expression in my earlier post to look like this: Text Matching: Regular Expr...

The problem is that when the Sapi5 speech interface sees a left angle bracket in the text, it expects the angle bracket to be followed by a control tag that does something like pause, change the voice speed, change the volume, etc. TextAloud automatically filters stray left angle brackets to prevent...

If I understand correctly, one problem you're having is that the rule to insert periods is not handling lines that end with a close parentheses character. I'll look at fixing the rule, but in the meantime you could add a TextAloud pronunciation dictionary entry to handle this case. From the TextAlou...

We tried to make It is easier to handle this problem in TextAloud 4. In TextAloud 4 there is a section in settings called Speaking Rules where you can configure options like this without needing to create pronunciation dictionary entries. From the main menu click Control Center -> Settings, and in t...

Ivona voices will work in any application on your laptop that supports Sapi5. Ivona voices are not locked to TextAloud.