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In fiction, the first few words or letters of a chapter are often either capitalized or formatted differently. Make these words consistent with the rest of the text. This may require changing the text to sentence case and re-capitalizing anything that needs to be recapitalized (such as proper names). We do this because some screenreaders read UPPERCASE words as separate letters (i.e. U-P-P-E-R-C-A-S-E) which sounds like an abbreviation and is annoying.
Excerpt of a book where drop caps and capitalization should be changed to sentence case: Drop caps and capitalization
Example:
#thisisanexample should be changed to #ThisIsAnExample
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PHRASEINALLCAPSWITHNOSPACES should be changed to PhraseInAllCapsWithNoSpaces
Advanced Find & Replace
and turn on wild cards
.Advanced Find & Replace
[A-Z]{2,}
into the search bar and it will find all the all capital words.Note: This also finds acronyms and abbreviations, so you have to just scroll through all of the all cap instances and manually change any that are proper words and phrases into either Sentence case of Capitalize Each Word. You can also create a keyboard shortcut for change capitalization.
Here is a quick video demo of how to find All Capital Letters
Q: There is a name in my text that appears as follows: Richard III. Should I change it to Richard the 3rd?
A: No, TTS is smart and will pronounce it like "Richard the 3rd" :) Most always, we avoid editing the original writing in any way. We can change how the TTS pronounces words by adding specific tags into the code.