Zotero Read Aloud and Reader making mistakes with hyphenated words and citations

willowbinder

I've been using the Read Aloud and Reader a lot lately and it has mostly been great, although both features make two errors, mostly with scanned PDFs.

1) The halves of words that are split and hyphenated between two lines are treated like two separate words.

2) Any citation or footnote formats that use superscript or subscript get treated as numbers tacked onto words, not citations.

This is only a minor issue with the reader mode, but gets really annoying with read aloud, as it causes a lot of unwanted pauses, messes up pronunciation and tone of the text to speech. The number issue can especially be bad when there is a citation following a year, as the read aloud reads the year as a number, not a year.


Here are some screenshots of the PDFs highlighting these errors:



PDF:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u18716894/ktgs044j8cw8h3u32ons.png
Reader:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u18716894/ps929x8rhdqh61tmutn8.png
Errors:
formula-tion --> formula tion --> "formula teon"
literature. (9) --> literature.9 --> "literaturenine"




PDF:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u18716894/z49hshagmoso6uq7v7bq.png
Reader:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u18716894/nkawrhyw1to36x0zrpos.png
Errors:
1965, (5) --> 1965/ --> "Nineteen Sixty-Five Slash" in read aloud
ma-chinery --> ma chinery --> "ma chynery"
1970. (6) --> 1970.6 --> "One-thousand Nine-hundred Seventy point Six"

(pdf text (citation) --> reader text --> "interpretation of Standard Voice 5 pronunciation")