Non English voices don't announce minus when reporting peek watcher values on Mac

[pitermach]

Following up on this conversation on rwp. There is currently a bug with non-english voices on Mac which don't announce the minus in front of negative numbers, like peek watcher readouts. Additionally, even if you override VoiceOver's punctuation to a higher level, that doesn't effect the announcements OSARA makes. I see 2 solutions to this:

• As suggested by Scott, make the minus a translateable string, that way it would always be spoken by any synth, not just on Mac. The one downside I see to this is it would probably be annoying for anyone using braille, since the word Minus takes up much more space than the character.
• If the value on the peek watcher is above 0, put the plus symmbol before it. With my testing it looks like at least with Polish and German the plus is always spoken, so that solves the issue of not knowing whether the displayed value is in the negative or not. It also matches how Reaper displays it in places like the render loudness report. The downside is here is any reports with positive loudness would take longer to speak, then again that's something you're trying to avoid so IMO that wouldn't be that annoying for the times it happens.

Not sure which way you think would be better to go with here, though personally I think I like the second option more. It might also be good to hear from people using other languages whether my findings also apply to them.

[jcsteh]

That is a deeply annoying bug. Surely that causes problems for general usage, not just OSARA Peak Watcher? For example, how does it handle reading negative numbers on the web or the like?