Pronouncing County not Company

[cearbhall o'meadhra]

Hi,

 

I am using NVDA 2026.1.1 (2026.1.1.55980)

With Microsoft Windows

Version 25H2 (OS Build 26200.8737)

 

I am frustrated trying to stop NVDA from saying “Company” when I need it to say “County” when I type, for example, “Co. Kerry”

 

All the best,

 

Cearbhall

 

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[Sarah Alawami]

Well, co is company technically.

what synth are you using as this might be a synth issue as well.

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[Rui Fontes]

You do not specify which synth you are using....

Best regards,

Rui Fontes
NVDA portuguese team

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[cearbhall o'meadhra]

Sarah,

 

Thanks for sharing.

I am using Microsoft Speech API version 4 and Voice: English-British: Justin-Tel (Adult Male for Telephone), 6.1 - ETI-Eloquence

You hit the right answer!

 

I tried applying the change in the Voice dictionary for this synth. Now it is speaking “County”  instead of “Company”!

 

The strange thing is that when I test the setting by simply letting NVDA say the word in the course of speaking, I hear “county Kerry”. However, when I use control left or right arrow to say the word, I hear “Company” as before!

 

Do I have to live with this behaviour? Is there nothing else I can do?

 

 

All the best,

 

Cearbhall

 

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[Sarah Alawami]

I have no idea. I don't use that voice. Hopefully an expert in the dictionaries can answer as I'm not it. Hehaha.

Happy sunday.

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[cearbhall o'meadhra]

Sarah,

 

Claude AI has an answer that sounds reasonable. Eloquence was developed for the American market when “Company” was the default in the US for “Co.”.

 

I notice that the Microsoft “one core” voices, though much later,  have the same priority and so the Voice Dictionary is the only option.

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[Snehashish Mahato.]

cearbhall o'meadhra wrote:

The strange thing is that when I test the setting by simply letting NVDA say the word in the course of speaking, I hear “county Kerry”. However, when I use control left or right arrow to say the word, I hear “Company” as before!

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Since that entry is actually written as ‘CO’ itself in the dictionary, So, you will get exactly that during word-by-word or character-by-character navigation. I guess this can come in handy for those words that you have added to the dictionary at some point or another for spell checking or equivalent situations

[Quentin Christensen]

With OneCore at least, it is case sensitive, so in this particular case, it is looking for capital C, lowercase o, and the dot afterwards.  Any other combination won't trigger it to say "company".  So if you move by word, it will treat "Co" as one word and the dot as one word, so in that case it WILL read Co not company.

With NVDA's speech dictionary, you can create a dictionary entry to match "Co." and replace with "co" and it will work.

Given the capitalisation, you could probably leave it matching anything, as it's unlikely to form part of a word, but you could specify that it needs to be a whole word if desired.

Kind regards

Quentin

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[Sean Randall]

if you wanted to be really cool, you could use a regular expression to match Co. followed by the 30 odd Irish counties, leaving the default company behaviour intact otherwise. 

I'm afraid I'm an eloquence user with all that processing turned off, so it's just the word Co (to rhyme with go for me all the way. .  

Thanks

Sean

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[Steve Nutt]

Yep, I also hate abbreviation expansion, I turn it right off.

All the best

Steve

 

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From: nvda-...@nvaccess.org <nvda-...@nvaccess.org> On Behalf Of Sean Randall
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Subject: Re: [NVDA] Pronouncing County not Company

 

if you wanted to be really cool, you could use a regular expression to match Co. followed by the 30 odd Irish counties, leaving the default company behaviour intact otherwise. 

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