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I was wondering if it would be at all possible to change it so that when you speak you use a quotation mark instead of an apostrophe. It would keep speech speech when ever you use an apostrophe in a word.

You already can. I use quotes all the time for the exact reason you bring up and it works fine. Are quotes not working for you?

Smote does work with quotation marks, but Say and Sayto do not, and it catches me out often enough that observant folks know all my alts because (among other things) I still spit out things like
Newbie says ' "I talk a lot. '
I'd make a related suggestion, if it is workable, which would be to have " or ' work in all of these commands.

In more detail, here's the current output for a given set of commands:
Input: SMOTE raises a brow and asks "What's that?"
Output: Gorby raises a brow and asks 'What's that?'.

Input: SAY "What's that?"
Output: You say ' "What's that?" '

Input: SAYTO horse "What's that?"
Output: You say to a white filly ' "What's that?" '

Assuming the code is already in place for SMOTE, and is compatible with commands that don't require a speech delimiter at all, it would be great if it could be applied to SAY and SAYTO such that the output would become (I change output ' to ", as well)
Input: SMOTE raises a brow and asks "What's that?"
Output: Gorby raises a brow and asks "What's that?".

Input: SAY "What's that?"
Output: You say "What's that?"

Input: SAYTO horse "What's that?"
Output: You say to a white filly "What's that?"


The current SMOTE code even maintains ' functionality if, for some reason, you do want to quote someone else (and thus use " in your speech):
Input: SMOTE coughs and says 'I beg your pardon, I thought you said "death"
Output: Gorby coughs and says 'I beg your pardon, I thought you said "death" '.
and, conversely, (though I'd love to see the outer ' become ")
Input: SMOTE coughs and says "I beg your pardon, I thought you said 'death'
Output: Gorby coughs and says 'I beg your pardon, I thought you said 'death' '.
I consider this the best of both worlds...and it does urge me toward using SMOTE all the time, which I'm told we should strive for...but I still SAY and SAYTO quite often.