Hebrew pronunciations in Android app

I noticed that although I have the speaker icon where the app will pronounce a Greek word when I do a word study, this is not the case with Hebrew. Is this the expected behavior? When I am on the desktop word studies pronounce either, so it seemed odd that Greek works on mobile but not Hebrew. Running app version 5.6.2 and Android 6. Thanks.

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Kevin Byford (Faithlife)

Which exact word (and resource) did you use to get the Hebrew word? Here's what I'm seeing:

Matthew

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/856035#Comment_856035

Which exact... resource

By scrolling down through my library, it looks like the most recent Hebrew text I had open was:

Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia: with Werkgroep Informatica, Vrije Universiteit Morphology

LLS:WIVUMORPH
2012-10-12T01:14:41Z
WIVUMORPH.logos4

Which exact word

When I opened the above resource back up, it was open to Psalm 119:2-10, which contains דֶּרֶך twice, once in verse 3 and once in verse 5. I cannot say with 100% accuracy which of the two instances I had used to launch the word study. However, using Logos 7 on Windows 10 I can confirm that I do have the speaker/pronunciation icon in the word study when launching from the occurrence in verse 5. I just used that exact word to launch the word study in the Android app and got the same result I posted above without the icon.

Having checked all that, I then opened the following resource to the same word and was consistently able to generate the icon in the word study as shown in your post:

Lexham Hebrew Bible

LLS:LHB
2016-05-04T18:37:55Z
LHB.logos4

I did this multiple times with each of the two resources, and I can consistently reproduce the results. Launching from one resource gives me the option to pronounce the word, but launching from the other does not. I then checked with this one and was successful in the results as well:

The Lexham Hebrew-English Interlinear Bible

LLS:1.0.199
2016-09-06T23:08:33Z
FHHEBINT.logos4

However, here is another resource that appears NOT to work when doing the same thing:

The Hebrew Bible: Andersen-Forbes Analyzed Text

LLS:1.0.196
2014-10-17T23:28:40Z
AFHEB10.logos4

In summary, I have two Hebrew Bibles where it works, and two Hebrew Bibles where it does not. For the resources where it does not work, I also tried several other words at random and was also unable to get get a pronunciation option. There is one more relevant piece of information here. Look at your screenshot and then look at mine. When I launch the word study from either of the two Bibles where I do not get an option to pronounce, the app only defines דֶּרֶך as "way" in the first line under the definition, but when I launch the word study from the other two Bibles where I do get the option to pronounce, I have the more complete definition shown in your screenshot of "way, road, distance, journey; manner, custom, behavior."

Kevin Byford (Faithlife)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/856062#Comment_856062

In summary, I have two Hebrew Bibles where it works, and two Hebrew Bibles where it does not.

I can verify this, and what is strange is the iOS and Android mobile apps act differently. With iOS when using all of the resources you mention, the word in verse 5 always has a pronunciation, but never the one in verse 3. I'll write up a case.