The Eloquence Speech Synthesizer Does Not Pronounce Some Mixed-Case Words Correctly, Particularly When the Community Dictionary is Enabled

Category
VoiceOver Speech/Voices
Severity
Minor

Description

On macOS, the Eloquence speech synthesizer does not pronounce some mixed-case words, like "AppleVis," correctly. In addition, when the Community Dictionary is enabled, as of macOS 26.3, words like "iOS," "iPadOS," "macOS," and "watchOS" are not spoken correctly.

Bug First Encountered

Unknown

How often the bug occurs

Always

Workaround

Disabling the Eloquence Community Dictionary is a partial workaround; however, some mixed-case words like "AppleVis" are still not pronounced correctly regardless of this setting.

Apple feedback #
FB21685057

Status

Active

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