![]() While reading large documents it is helpful to have slightly longer pauses, it helps you understand the text better, which is exactly the role of punctuation. Although, I find this very useful for navigating around different applications, but for serious study of a document, it is annoying. ![]() For example, while navigating a simple list menu with arrow keys, NVDA would say, DOWN ARROW, then it would speak the next item after a very brief pause. Even the pause after pressing command keys is shorter. I have observed, Espeak and Eloquence provide a very brief pause after punctuation and sentence break, when compared to other synthesizers. Subject: pauses after punctuation and sentence end in different speech synthesizers I remain hopeful that one day a solution will be found for this, but I think it lies in the hands of the creators of the different voices. maybe I can make a case for Hazel getting an appearance fee too ) Sorry not to have better news on the pausing question. One thing that made me smile was that I'm scheduled to read in Torquay, south England, in October and on the flyers my event is listed as Giles and Hazel. Dashes, m-dashes and n-dashes produce no pause at all in any of the voices I've tried. ![]() Long texts Upto 2 000 000 characters per convert. Just the comma / semicolon and the full stop were the only two pauses. This includes alphanumeric characters, punctuation, and white spaces. The ellipsis is a longer pause, put in for two main reasons. I used to own a pair of Orcam glasses and ran into the same problem with the length of pauses with that system. Current versions of iOS VoiceOver pause nicely for commas as well. There is no way to use two full stops to get a double length pause, nor to combine a comma with a full stop to get like a full stop and a half of pausing! Likewise, with my preferred poetry performance voice, Hazel (Microsoft SAPI5) there is no raised intonation to indicate a question mark, where in other voices (Microsoft Zira, for example) the question mark is clearly audible. I do not detect any difference in the length of pause for a semicolon compared to a comma. You basically have the length of a comma and the length of a full stop / period, and that's it. I sometimes use NVDA to perform poetry I've written at my poetry readings, but the answers I received were that the length of pauses is not controlable via NVDA, it is dependent on whichever voice you are using. I tried to find a way to do this not too long ago.
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