Matthew Clapham
Jan 23, 2024

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Handy! I wanted to do this the other day with a poem, just to see how the text-to-speech engine handled it, but couldn't.

What I did discover after publishing and clicking the option was that where a line ended with a full stop but no trailing space after it, because poetry is single-spaced, the engine interpreted it as a web address, and read it as 'dot'.

So

"This line ending here.

And this new line"

would be read as

"This line ending here-dot-and

This new line".

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Matthew Clapham
Matthew Clapham

Written by Matthew Clapham

Professional translator by day. Writer of silly and serious stuff by night. Also by day, when I get fed up of tedious translations. Founder of Iberospherical.

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