replacing symbol "¬"

[jungaree]

Hi,

For some reason when I copied and pasted text from a Word doc into Textaloud, I got a bunch of words split by the symbol "¬" and I'm unsure how to get rid of these from the text. They're are compromising pronunciation and there's far too many to remove manually.

Appreciate any help. Thanks,

Glen

[Jim Bretti]

From the TextlAloud menu, try Edit -> Replace. The dialog should allow you to leave the Replace string empty, allowing you to remove the characters.

[jungaree]

Hi Jim,

Sorry, I should have written that I already tried that. I get the message, "The string ¬ was not found."

Here's a sample of the text if you'd like to have a go:

"south¬ern Tanzania (see photo). Whether or not the monkey remains clas¬sified in this genus will depend on DNA analysis."

Thanks again,

Glen

[Jim Bretti]

Hi Glen,

Its odd, I was able to use Edit -> Replace to replace those characters. Are you running the latest version (3.0.13) of TextAloud? If not, download the installer from http://www.nextup.com/files/ta3.exe and see if installing the update helps.

If that doesn't help, can you send me the text for an entire article? Use File -> Save Article As Text File, and send the text file to me at jim@nextup.com. If it is possible to send me a sample Word document that would probably be even better.

[jungaree]

Hi Jim,

Got it figured out.

From the Edit: Replace Text window, I had to uncheck the Options: Case Sensitive, Whole Words Only, and Prompt on Replace.

Thanks again (and for the update link),

Glen

[Jim Bretti]

I didn't think to ask about that. The Whole Words Only option is causing the problem.

Glad to hear you figured it out.

[voiceboxer]

Hey guys,

Been searching around the forum and thought I would mention this same method of symbol fixing caused the latest version of TA to freeze up for me it seemed like 1 of every three times. I got it fixed, but found it weird that the program wasn't wanting to function once I unchecked whole words only. Possible bug? If we can figure out all of the details I will include a fix in the e-reader email marketing material I am putting together right now that goes out to various IT staffing agencies across the world.

[Jim Bretti]

Sounds like a bug but I can't seem to get it to happen myself. Can you email me a sample of text where you're seeing this problem? If you can, please send to me at jim@nextup.com

If you're just trying to prevent the symbol from being sent to the voice engines, you could also try setting up a character filter until we figure out what is going on with search/replace. From the TextAloud menu, click Tools -> Text Processing -> Character Speaking and Filtering. Click the Add button, and on the add dialog, use the option 'Filter Character', and place some characters to filter, including the ¬ character, in the field labeld "Characters:"