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vo. is reading all punctuation

By honest nan, 25 March, 2023

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iOS and iPadOS

I have an iPhone 8 with the latest update. I did something today that made VO speak all punctuation. I tried rebooting the phone and changing the punctuation setting in settings. Neither one worked. Help!

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Have you tried going to punctuation in the rotor?

By Brad

2 months 1 week ago

Then flick up or down until you hear some, default.

If that doesn't work I'm honestly not sure what to suggest, perhaps there's a punctuation profile or something?

Activities

By Tyler

2 months 1 week ago

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

Do you have "Activities" in your rotor, or could the "Programming" activity have been inadvertently activated? I believe that activity, being intended for coding, is configured to speak all punctuation.

HTH

VoiceOver settings

By Edward Louie

2 months 1 week ago

Go to settings, accessibility, voiceover, Verbosity, choose punctuations, and select some punctuations, and everything should return to normal, if this does not work, you may have to look at activities you might have enabled under settings, accessibility, voiceover, activities.
If all else fails, you might need to restore your phone from a previous iCloud/iTunes backup.

got it, thanks.

By honest nan

2 months 1 week ago

it was a setting in activities. I have no idea how it happened, but thanks for the advice.

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