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Not sure if this is a bad idea, but I'd like an #NVDA setting to turn off the reading of URLs. Specifically, if something is identified as a URL on the text, it could just say URL, or if we want a bit more specificity, web URL, FTP URL, or whatever. Thoughts? I suppose this might be possible to do with a user ditionary.
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modulux
modulux
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Mostly tired of fedi endless URLs with a ton of digits or random alphanumeric or base64-encoded strings. Would be nice to be able to skip over those.
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Kara Goldfinch
Kara Goldfinch
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Yeah I bet there's some regexp hack to do it.
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modulux
modulux
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Maybe something like \w+://\S* ? Something like that? Screw it, I'm going to try it.
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Kara Goldfinch
Kara Goldfinch
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I no nothing about regexp. I have a couple of expressions i copied to make whatsapp more bearable but don't know how they work.
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modulux
modulux
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I'm enough of a nerd i can work my way through regexps in times of need. Though I always have to read the docs for the names of the special classes and such.
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modulux
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Alright, this is simple enough to achieve through user configuration.

Go to NVDA, preferences, speech dictionary, default dictionary and add this pattern as a regular expression: "\w+://\S+"

Substitute with "URL." With a dot at the end to get a little pause. And that's more or less done.

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modulux
modulux
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I might fiddle with this so that it reads the domain name, though I'm not sure I always want to know. Would be cool if specific dictionary patterns could be turned on and off through configuration profiles, but as far as I know dictionaries are global.
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Peter Vágner
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@modulux Dictionaries are either global or TTS specific so you can have one for eSpeak-ng and the other one for one core voices and similar if it's helpfull. So you might have a profile with specific voice for extra details if you like.
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modulux
modulux
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I see. that doesn't quite solve the issue for me. For example sometimes I want URLs to be read, sometimes skipped, but I want to use the same voice. I'd like to be able to trigger this by activating a profile or using a gesture, but it seems this is not possible. For now I'll just remove and re-add to dictionary when I need to, I guess.
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