Re: American Heritage Englis-Spanish EReference dictionary with Jaws? nbg
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 12:21:01 -0800
Jerry,
right. I know you can switch the synth that way, but that doesn't seem
practical for a bilingual dictionary! Hmmm. I wonder how you're supposed
to do this. Maybe you've just got to keep Eloquence (or whatever) in
English and put up with the goofy pronunciation of the Spanish and then just
trace its spelling character by character so you can see what the word
actually is. A little tedious, to put it mildly. But still, with my modest
Spanish fluency and fairly frequent need to use Spanish in various things, I
get tired of emailing a Mexican friend here, a Cuban friend there, to ask
them to explain something that's hanging me up. Just the other day I was
reading an angry review of a Norelco shaver on Amazon, written by a
Guatemalan customer, and was laughing at his dramatic condemnation of the
product, but needed translation for one or two words, and had to copy and
paste the review into an email to a Cuban friend in San diego, and wait for
her response when a dictionary would have served very nicely.
I wonder if I should take a chance, the Jaws question notwithstanding.
After all, even if I have to examine each Spanish word letter by letter so I
can "see" it, (actually I do visualize the word), I guess it's better than
no dictionary at all. Maybe. Quien sabe. No no, silly gringo Jaws. Say
"keyEn Sahbay. Thank you.
----- Original Message -----
From: "G.W. Cox" <gwcox2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: American Heritage Englis-Spanish EReference dictionary with
Jaws? nbg
Dunno about that Spanish-English dictionary.
I've heard that that switch to a different language is something that is
programmed into html. I just tried a Puerto Rican site and no dice.
Using the Jaws context menu, languages, synthesizer language, I switched
to Latin American Spanish, and it read with correct pronunciation.
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 12:10 PM
Subject: American Heritage Englis-Spanish EReference dictionary with
Jaws? nbg
Hi,
I'm about the download the trial version of the EReference American
Heritage
Dictionary of the English language, and on that Web page I saw an ad for
a
stand-alone English-Spanish dictionary that sounded nice, also. Does
anyone
know how well this one can be accessed with Jaws, and whether there are
jaws
scripts written to make it accessible if that's what's needed?
Also, it's hard for me to imagine how this will sound with Jaws. If
only
Jaws would respond in a language-sensitive way to what it read, that
would
be great (the way it automatically reads some emails with a British
accent,
and so forth), but I have no idea whether it would do this with such a
product. It isn't so much that I anticipate needing to hear a word
pronounced in order to learn it all the time, but I do pale at the
thought
of having to make sense of most words by tracing them character by
character
with Jaws after hearing a nonsensical reading of them.
Any help from experienced people will be appreciated.
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