iOS VoiceOver reading out decimal numbers wrong

By Jeff Wong, 8 December, 2015

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Has anyone run into an issue where VoiceOver reads out decimal numbers literally?

For example, I have a label with 4.29 that gets read as "Four dot twenty-nine" when it would make more sense as "four point two nine".

More frustratingly, it seems to only do this on certain builds of our code.

I could have sworn that when I tried to make a sample app with some decimals on labels and it read them out with the "point".

Is this an Apple bug or is this an acceptable behavior for a label?

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By kevinchao89 on Wednesday, December 9, 2015 - 08:23

I've tried with Alex and Samantha and hear dot in both. Think this is acceptable.
Of course, your use case may make more sense with decimal being called point. TTS have a funny way of determining how to say things sometimes.