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Roy37487395qtph
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May 19, 2024
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Read Aloud not pronouncing "ti" and"fi"

  • May 19, 2024
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Read Aloud is not speaking "ti" and"fi". It puts a blank where these should be spoken.

Release 2024.002.20759 (64 bit) on Windows 10.

 

Below is a selection of works not spoken properly.

  • writing
  • instruction
  • application
  • information
  • duties
  • detective
  • officersection
  • identification
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    try67
    Community Expert
    try67Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 11, 2024

    That's probably because they are ligatures, which are special characters that contain two letters (a leftover from the old physical font days). See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)

    If not encoded properly, such characters will break up a word and prevent the TTS engine from reading it correctly.

    You should report this issue to the other of the file and ask them to fix it.

    Meenakshi_Negi
    Meenakshi_Negi
    Legend
    June 4, 2024

    Hi Roy37487395qtph,

     

    Thank you for reaching out.

     

    Please share the PDF on which you use the read-out-loud feature. Also, confirm if you experienced this behavior with all the files. 

    We will get this checked once we have the file. 

     

    Thanks,

    Meenakshi

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      Roy37487395qtphAuthor
      Participant
      June 11, 2024

      Please see attached.

       

      I extracted a representative section of text into a new Word document, and created a PDF file from that Word document. As you listen to the attached doucument, you will discover that text in the boxes does note read correctly. Text outside the boxes reads correctly. 

       

      Thx

      try67
      Community Expert
      try67Community Expert
      Community Expert
      June 11, 2024

      As I suspected, the ligatures are not encoded properly. You can clearly see it if you double-click the word "Application" just under the images on page 1. You'll notice it only selects part of the word, and if you manually select the full text and copy it elsewhere it comes out broken:

      Applica on for or renewal of individual licence

      The "ti" ligature is missing, and a space is entered in its place.

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