You may also want to check the box for "Show input menu in menu bar" before closing the "Languages & Text" window with Command-W. In the "Input Source" table on the Input Sources tab, check the box for "Unicode Hex Input". Go to System Preferences > Languages & Text > Input Sources. To do this, add the "Unicode Hex Input" keyboard to your input sources. One way you can type the characters on your Mac with existing keyboards is if you know the Unicode decimal Hex values for the character symbols you want. While there are custom IPA keyboards for the Mac, I haven't tried loading these, because I don't think they would be accessible. The "Type IPA phonetic symbols" web site is actually easier to use than the old Character Palette installations.
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The problem even then is that the full IPA character set is huge, and you'd have to navigate through the entire table to find and copy the symbols you needed, and several of these wouldn't be pronounced by VoiceOver. In older versions of the operating system (back in 2009) you could pull up the character palette in TextEdit, set the pop up menu to view "all characters", then go to the table and select "Symbols", and then select "Phonetic Symbols".
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The IPA character symbols aren't loaded by default onto any of the current Mac OS X operating systems. This combination can be typed with an Option key shortcut (Option+apostrophe - the key to left of the return key on an English language keyboard).Ĭan you just define a set of the extra characters you want to use and set up shortcut definitions to type these? I think that's your best bet. "Near-open front unrounded vowel (Ctrl+AA)" is a very long description for the vowel sound in "cat" or the beginning of "apple".
Now, that second description is for a keyboard symbol that VoiceOver does announce, as "?" (or on my iOS devices in some phonetics apps this is described as "A E ligature". "near-open front unrounded vowel (Ctrl+AA) button" "open back unrounded vowel (Ctrl+A) button" For example, here are the first two characters: However, these descriptions are very long, and include extraneous information on typing the characters with keyboard shortcuts that don't work for me. If you navigate through the character buttons, you get full descriptions that VO reads, and if you VO+space on the characters they'll be typed into a text box on the web page. There's a web site for entering characters called "Type IPA phonetic symbols": There isn't a really good way to work with IPA (phonetic) symbols with VoiceOver, because most of these characters don't get pronounced.
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