Re: changing language situation

  • From: "Robert Smith" <rrrsmith@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:36:10 -0800

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Dale,

In Jaws one can arrow to the new choice you want, and enter there.  This seems 
to cancel the former setting.

Bob S.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dale Leavens 
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 2:49 PM
  Subject: Re: changing language situation


  I am looking for a way to stop it from going into foreign languages. Once 
K1000 thinks it sees another language it seems to want to refuse to change 
back. Here we have two official languages so often there will be some French. 
Once K1000 decides it is french it won't stop unless you close and reopen the 
programme.

  Royal pain in the dialect. 

  Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada
  DLeavens@xxxxxxx
  Skype DaleLeavens
  Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat.


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS) 
    To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 8:39 AM
    Subject: RE: changing language situation


    That's interesting.  all that should have been required was going back to 
the language menu, as described in your note, and reselecting the English 
version of Eloquence.  Fortunately, given the heavily accented English, it's 
the first choice on that submenu.  There must be other issues in play, if you 
had that much trouble.

    That language can be a tricky thing. I've had some PDF files that defaulted 
to a British accent, for reasons I was never able to fathom.  It's my personal 
opinion that British Eloquence sounds more than a little silly, and any UK 
native would find it totally ridiculous.  However, as you point out, the actual 
foreign languages can be a God send on texts written in that language, or even 
for occasional words and phrases, which don't phoneticize properly in English.

    Ted
      -----Original Message-----
      From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Robert Smith
      Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:58 PM
      To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
      Subject: changing language situation




      Dear list,

      Sorry the following turned out so long, but do need help!


      Being interested in learning German, I found a couple of web sites that 
look promising.  I thought, though, that before down loading anything I should 
check to see if Jaws would be able to read that language properly when it 
appears on the screen.  I went to Jaws 6 which is on my desktop, entered, which 
brought up the context menu.  I entered on open; found language, and entered, 
found two items:  Jaws language, which as I remember contained American 
English, English, and Spanish.   (sorry this is getting so long)!  closed that, 
and on the previous list found, language synthesizer.  Entered on that, and lo 
and behold found a long list of foreign languages including German.  Entered on 
that dis covered it did a really good job of reading everything in my computer 
with a almost un-understandable German accent; but did a beautiful job with 
some real German I typed in.

      Now the problem.  I couldn't turn off the German talk!!!  I tried 
everything I know-which isn't very much; including reboot, complete turn off.  
German was still there when computer turned back on.  Finally after a couple of 
hours, and an over-night rest and turning on computer again, and some more 
piking around, German disappeared and English Jaws returned.   My question 
finally is, what should I do to close down the use of German and returning to 
English?

      Bob Smith


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